*catches up on stuff.* ah, the Galileo gambit. there is a reason it has a name!
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He's really one of my heroes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves … Just like cars existed well before Henry Ford, scientific instruments existed long before Galileo He perfected them & his instrument maker Mazzoleni mass-produced them He basically developed engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#Engineering …
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One reason Venetian Navy maintained supremacy over Ottomans: Galileo made artillery tables & taught them to use his instruments to calculate range & powder charge He documented the Galilean moons' period so consistently that a Naval captain could use them as a clockpic.twitter.com/S8pIvthJMS
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