Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
— Galileo Galilei Early Modern

Father of modern observational astronomy

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Context

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

Date / Period

1638

Category

Strange & Unusual

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18790/18790-h/18790-h.htm

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