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Before we get to the books, a general question: in his lifetime, Galileo won celebrity status because of his telescope. What would you say was his biggest contribution as a scientist?

I think Galileo’s scientific achievement can be divided into a few different categories:

One is transforming the Dutch spyglass into a scientific instrument. He did not invent the telescope as an object, but he transformed a report of this object into an observational instrument.

Astronomy changes, because of Galileo. It becomes observational in a different way.

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We extend sight with the help of instruments and use the telescope to see what we can see. That’s a major innovation.

Another is that Galileo’s mechanics is the foundation of a lot of basic high school physics. When we do inclined plane experiments, we’ve replicated some of his basic insights about how weight, mass, and motion behave—what became Galileo’s other lifetime work.

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