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	Galileo (scientist) - ninemsn Encarta
		His father, Vincenzio Galilei, played an important role in the musical revolution from medieval polyphony to harmonic modulation.
		Just as Vincenzio saw that rigid theory stifled new forms in music, so his eldest son came to see both the currently dominant physics of the Greek philosopher Aristotle and the Roman Catholic theology influenced by it as limiting physical inquiry.
		Viviani has Galileo simultaneously dropping two objects of the same material but different weights to refute the Aristotelian belief that speed of fall is proportional to weight.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557587/Galileo_(scientist).html (1265 words)

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		His father, Vincenzio, was an impoverished descendant of a noble Florentine house, which had exchanged the surname of Bonajuti for that of Galilei, on the election, in 1343, of one of its members, Tommaso de' Bonajuti, to the college of the twelve Buonuomini.
		The family, which was nineteen times represented in the signoria, and in 1445 gave a gonfalonier to Florence, flourished with the republic and declined with its fall.
		He was a competent mathematician, wrote with considerable ability on the theory and practice of music, and was especially distinguished amongst his contemporaries for the grace and skill of his performance upon the lute.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=27105 (5600 words)

	The Galileo Project \| Science \| Pendulum Clock
		His first biographer, Vincenzo Viviani, states that he began his study of pendulums after he watched a suspended lamp swing back and forth in the cathedral of Pisa when he was still a student there.
		Finally they decided on the scheme shown in the accompanying drawing, to be put in practice to learn the fact of those difficulties in machines which are usually not foreseen in simple theorizing.
		Viviani wrote this in 1659, seventeen years after Galileo's death and two years after the publication of Christiaan Huygens's Horologium, in which Huygens described his pendulum clock.
	es.rice.edu /newgalileo/sci/instruments/pendulum.html (948 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Viviani was first of all a student of ancient geometry who, though a leading mathematician, never came to terms with the new analyis.
		The Grand Duke shifted into gear and appointed Viviani as his mathematician with a stipend of 600 scudi, promising to let him retire as engineer (though Viviani was in fact not allowed to retire as engineer until 1677 and was still at the job in some sense twenty years after that).
		Viviani dedicated a mathematical publication in 1677 to Jean Chapelain, the councillor of Louis XIV who in 1664 had named Viviani was one of the twelve and thus secured for him the patronage of Louis.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/viviani.html (1489 words)

	Galileo (scientist) - Search View - ninemsn Encarta
		Galileo was taught by monks at Vallombrosa and then entered the University of Pisa in 1580 or 1581 to study medicine.
		In 1589 he became Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pisa.
		Though Viviani’s account is sometimes dismissed as legend, it is more probably an exaggerated version of an actual event.
	au.encarta.msn.com /text_761557587__1/Galileo_(scientist).html (2982 words)

	Special Collections \| The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology
		While Viviani was working on his reconstruction of the fifth book, Giovanni Borelli discovered in an Arabic manuscript in the Medicean Library the text of books five through seven (book eight is still lost).
		This discovery, however, was kept a secret in order to give Viviani a chance to complete his reconstruction, which was published in 1659.
		Viviani, a disciple and biographer of Galileo, established his reputation with this work.
	www.sil.si.edu /libraries/Dibner/newacq_2002.htm (3052 words)

	Short Biographies
		In 1647, Viviani was appointed mathematician to the Grand Duke, and in 1657 he became member of the Academy of the Cimento.
		Viviani published many mathematical books, and wrote an important (even if not always reliable) biography of his master Galileo.
		In his testament, Viviani left funds for the construction of Galileo's sepulchral monument in Santa Croce.
	www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de /Galileo_Prototype/MAIN/BIO.HTM (1143 words)

	The Galileo Project \| Science \| Vincenzo Viviani
		Vincenzo Viviani was born and raised in Florence where early on he attracted attention for his abilities in mathematics.
		During his long career, Viviani published a number of books on mathematical and scientific subjects.
		When, in the 1730s, the Church finally allowed Galileo to be reburied in a grave with an elaborate monument, the monument in the church of Santa Croce was constructed with the help of funds left by Viviani for that purpose.
	galileo.rice.edu /sci/viviani.html (187 words)

	Palazzo dei Cartelloni
		The Palazzo was remodeled as a residence in the 17th century for the mathematician Vicenzo Viviani, who had been a pupil of the astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei.
		Viviani dedicated his home to his esteemed teacher and had constructed two large scrolls on the building's façade that describe the extraordinary life and achievements of his master.
		The former residence of Vincenzio Viviani, at No. 11, Via Sant’Antonino, is a short walk from Florence’s central railway station.
	www.saci-florence.org /generalinfo/facilities.htm (424 words)

	Fondazione Galileo Galilei
		Vincenzio always declared to be of Florence, and he was right if he referred to his nationality, but, if he meant a declaration of citizenship, he was wrong, because he had given it up.
		Vincenzio was a habitué at Giovanni de Bardi's, a house always full of "the most famous men in the town", as his son Pietro wrote to Monsignor Pietro Dini (December 16th, 1634).
		Viviani says: " when he was a teenage, he spent a few years in human studies with a well-known teacher of Florence, since his father could not give him better comforts, having a big family and a scarce fortune.
	www.fondazionegalileogalilei.it /web_lab_galileo/galileo/galapisa/galp-eng.htm (3168 words)

	Palazzo Vecchio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The large, one-handed clock was originally constructed by the Florentine Nicolò Bernardo, but was replaced in 1667 by a clock made by Vincenzo Viviani.
		Above are frescoes of historical events; among these, that of Boniface VIII receiving the ambassadors of foreign States and, seeing that were all Florentines said these famous words, "You Florentines are the quintessence".
		In the niches are sculptures by Bandinelli: in the center the statue of the seated Leo X (sculpted assisted by his scholar Vincenzio Rossi), and on the right a statue of Charles V crowned by Clement VII.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palazzo_Vecchio (3012 words)

	Galileo vs the Church
		One story that Vincenzo Viviani - who produced the first biography of Galileo some 10 years after his death - tells us is that Galileo, being short of cash, tried to use his discoveries concerning the pendulum to earn money.
		Her death was a tragic blow to Galileo; his other daughter Livia and son Vincenzio were much less close to him, although Virginia had tried constantly to mitigate the difficulties between Galileo and her brother.
		Viviani's own remains were also moved to Galileo's grave as were those of Galileo's daughter, Virginia.
	courses.science.fau.edu /~rjordan/phy1931/GALILEO/galileo.htm (7404 words)

	Sobel (Dava) Galileo's Daughter Summary
		His first son Vincenzio (1606-1669) was born out of wedlock to his longstanding mistress Marina Gamba of Venice and eventually legitimized.
		His son Vincenzio obtained a law degree and a pension as canon (which he later rejected to GG's embarrassment).
		Viviani tried to establish a proper mausoleum for him, not achieved until 1737 at Santa Croce, at which time it was found that his body had been interred with his daughter's.
	www.mcgoodwin.net /pages/otherbooks/ds_galileodaughter.html (2755 words)

	Galileo Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In On motion Galileo uses the Archimedian approach to motion: the speed of falling bodies is proportional to their density, not their weight as Aristotle had maintained.
		According to Vincenzo Viviani Galileo demonstrated his conclusions by dropping weights from the leaning tower of Pisa.
		Galileo becomes a grandfather, when Sestilia Bocchineri, his son Vincenzio's wife since the previous year, gives birth to a boy who is given the name Galileo.
	www.hillsborough.k12.nj.us /hhs/sok/galileo_timeline.htm (4209 words)

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		Vincenzio Galilei was descended from a Florentine patrician family.
		He perfected the crude telescope into an astronomical instrument, and he developed a device, sort of a protomicrometer, to measure diameters of stars and planets.
		Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was largely responsible for reformulating the laws of motion, considered earlier by the Greeks and medieval scholars.
	www.math.tamu.edu /~don.allen/history/transit/transit.html (3874 words)

	Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He died in Arcetri on January 8, 1642, in the company of his student Vincenzo Viviani.
		This was contrary to what Aristotle had taught: that heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones, in direct proportion to weight.
		Though the story of the tower first appeared in a biography by Galileo's pupil Vincenzo Viviani, it is not now generally accepted as true.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Galileo (4872 words)

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		Protocol required a proper introduction, and here Boulliau, interceding on Huygens' behalf, requested that Leopold provide diagrams of Galileo's pendulum clock as well as evidence of the model that was said to be constructed by Galileo's son.
		Judging Viviani's history as a complicating factor, he did not forward the document to Huygens, nor did he raise the issue again with the Prince of Tuscany.
		The evidence (or lack thereof), of Boulliau's failure to forward the document to Huygens, and his silence on the matter with Leopold, suggest this was not a secretarial error but a strategic gesture based on years of diplomatic experience.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Home/resource-ref-read/major-individuals/huygens/08sr-h1.htm (3864 words)

	Biography of Galileo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One story that Vincenzio Viviani (1622-1703) - who edited the first edition of Galileo's collected works in 1655-1656, over a decade after his death - tells is that Galileo, being nearly penniless, tried to use his discovery to earn money.
		At the end of 1638 the restrictions were relaxed a little and a young scholar, Vincenzio Viviani, who later wrote the first biography of Galileo [7], moved into his villa.
		His son Vincenzio was legitimized by the Grand Duke of Tuscany for whom Galileo went to work; of course, he would not have to provide a dowry for his son.
	wise.fau.edu /~jordanrg/bios/Galileo/Galileo_bio.htm (7208 words)

	19th Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		72 in the nineteenth century was marked, in particular, by the contribution of Vincenzio Antinori and the pioneering efforts of Raffaello Caverni, Antonio Favaro, and Emil Wohlwill to systematically interpret and edit this manuscript.
		In the memoirs of Leopold II, one reads that, still under the government of his father, he asked him for permission to bring order to the collection and that he was assisted by the scholar Vincenzio Antinori, see PESENDORFER 1987, pp.
		In the year 1841, Eugenio Albèri and Vincenzio Antinori received permission to prepare a new complete edition of the works of Galileo on the basis of the papers of the Palatina-Collection.
	www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de /Galileo_Prototype/MAIN/CENT_19.HTM (1173 words)

	Popular Fallacies in the History of Science - Numericana
		When he became Galileo's assistant in October 1638, Viviani was only a 16-year old youth from Florence, whose promising aptitude for mathematics had earned him the commendation of Galileo's patron, the Grand Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany.
		Torricelli and Viviani suspected that the limited tensile strength of water was not at fault, despite what Galileo had conjectured, but that the weight of the liquid column was of crucial importance.
		They transposed the effect to mercury and observed that if a mercury-filled glass tube is inverted into a bowl of mercury without letting any air in, then the level of mercury in the tube stabilizes at a height of about 760 mm over the level of the liquid in the bowl.
	home.att.net /~numericana/answer/record.htm (3943 words)

	Additional Information Regarding the Galilean Telescope
		The story of the fate of Galileo's papers and the attempts to assemble them into a collected edition of his works is told in some detail in the bibliographical note at the end of Fahie (1903).
		Much of what Viviani had collected is said to have been dissipated by his heirs, the remaining papers allegedly being sold for scrap by about 1750.
		Vincenzio Viviani, Galileo, whose father was a prominent musician, wished to become a painter in his youth, but was overruled.
	www.pacifier.com /~tpope/Additional_Info.htm (8217 words)

	Walks in Florence: Churches, Streets and Palaces
		The statue of this sovereign, by Giovan Bologna, adorns the façade above the arches at the end nearest the Arno; he is representing standing between allegorical figures of Justice and Rigour, executed by Vincenzio Danti, the scholar of Baccio Bandinelli.
		A still more interesting letter, in the writing of Galileo's favourite pupil, Vicenzio Viviani, proves that Galileo was the first to apply the pendulum to the clock.
		The pendulum, by proving the resistance of air, served to confirm him in his theory of gravitation; it likewise illustrated his theory of music by the intersection of waves of sound.
	www.florin.ms /hwalks14.html (4248 words)

	Scientific Revolution - Westfall Catalogue - SAM-V-Z - Dr Robert A. Hatch
		Father: Aristocrat; Jacopo di Michelagnolo Viviani was a member of a noble family.
		Education: None Known; Viviani studied with the Jesuits in Florence, and he studied mathematics with Clemente Settimi of the Scuole Pie.
		Viviani undertook to publish Torricelli's works after his death but did not carry through.
	web.clas.ufl.edu /users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Home/resource-ref-read/major-minor-ind/westfall-dsb/SAM-V-Z.htm (18040 words)

	Strange Loops - History of the Barometer
		If Torricelli was right about the weight of the air being the cause of the observed effects in the barometer, then a substance heavier than water should fall further in the tube than water did (that is, it should stand lower than thirty-four feet).
		Regardless of who came up with the idea, Torricelli was the first to seriously take it up as an experiment, and he shared his predictions of what would happen if mercury were used in a barometer with his close friend Vincenzio Viviani.
		Early in 1644, Viviana carried out Torricelli's experiment, and it was seen that the mercury (which was known to be fourteen times heavier than water) stopped flowing into the basin when the level in the tube reached a height fourteen times smaller than that at which water stopped (Middleton 23-30).
	www.strange-loops.com /scibarometer.html (2053 words)

	Audemars Piguet AP Rutilated Crystal Inline Tourbillon
		Galileo Gallilee, the famed mid-16th to mid-17th century renaissance man whose thoughts, theories, and discoveries, are fundamental to 20th century Western science and life, did quite a bit of theorizing and experimentation on the qualities and applications of pendulums, including their possible use as a timekeeping regulator.
		Vincenzio in turn committed those ideas to a rough sketch, shown right.
		All photos and diagrams shown are either AP marketing photos or from the private archives of ThePuristS.com, except Vincenzio Galilee's drawing of his father's pendulum clock concept.
	www.thepurists.com /brandjpg/ap/aprctourbi/index.html (633 words)

	The legend of the leaning tower (February 2003) - Physics World - PhysicsWeb
		The finding mentioned by Commander Scott, namely that objects of different mass fall at the same rate in a vacuum, is associated with a single person (Galileo) and a single place the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
		The culprit is Vincenzio Viviani, Galileo's secretary in the final years of his life.
		This finding coupled with the fact that Viviani's biography is the only source to mention that the experiments were done at the Leaning Tower causes most historians of science to doubt Viviani's version of what Galileo did.
	physicsweb.org /articles/world/16/2/2 (987 words)

	GALILEO GALILEI (1564-... - Online Information article about GALILEO GALILEI (1564-...
		father, Vincenzio, was an impoverished descendant of a See also:
		pension to his son Vincenzio, which was afterwards transferred to himself, and paid, with some irregularities, to the end of his life.
		But on the subject of the decree of 1616, the revocation of which Galileo had hoped to obtain through his personal influence, he found him inexorable.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GAG_GEO/GALILEO_GALILEI_1564_1642_.html (6178 words)

	Walks in Florence: Churches, Streets and Palaces
		The bust of Galileo is over the door, and inscriptions in his honour are laced on either side.
		Galileo left Viviani his Library, which has since passed to the Hospital of Sta.
		In the Campo dei Corbellini lived the Gaddi family, Gaddo, Taddeo, and Agnolo, of the schools of Cimabue and Giotto; and the Via Melarancio, at the corner of the Via dell' Amore, was so called, from the pomegranates in their garden.
	www.florin.ms /hwalks29.html (2576 words)

	Scientists & Discovery, Pendulum clocks, Museum Victoria, Australia.
		As an old man, Galileo realised this meant pendulums could be used to build a clock.
		Galileo's son Vincenzio, and Galileo's last student, Vincenzio Viviani, completed his design for a pendulum clock.
		Years later, Christiaan Huygens discovered how to make pendulums swing exactly by making them swing between two curves called cycloids.
	www.museum.vic.gov.au /scidiscovery/gravity/pendulums.asp (215 words)

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