GALILEO
 

SIZE: Lifesize

MEDIUM: Bronze

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HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY

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VISION is the theme of this sculpture.

Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa. Galileo has been called the Father of Observational Astronomy, Father of Modern Physics, Father of Scientific Method, and the Father of Modern Science.

Of all of his telescope discoveries, he is perhaps most known for his discovery of the four most massive moons of Jupiter, now known as the Galilean moons: Io, Ganymede, Europa and Callisto.