Galileo

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# Clue Answer As Given Value Round Category Air Date Show
As a group, the 4 largest of Jupiter's moons are named for this Italian Galileo $400 DJ SCIENCE STUFF 2025-06-30 #9366
This Italian scientist's legendary falling bodies experiment showed falling objects accelerate at the same rate Galileo $1,200 DJ SCIENCE EXPERIEMENTS 2024-05-16 #9104
He referred to his pupils Antonio Nardi, Raffaello Magiotti & Evangelista Torricelli as his Roman triumvirate Galileo $1,200 DJ MEN OF SCIENCE 2019-07-04 #8029
Pope Urban VIII originally approved this man writing about heliocentric theory, but not defending it Galileo $400 DJ SCIENCE FRICTION 2018-05-01 #7752
1632's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" gothimin trouble with the Catholic church Galileo $800 DJ GREAT BOOKS OF SCIENCE 2017-10-31 #7622
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew, at Harvard University's Historical Scientific Instruments, holds a metal right angle with a plumb bob.) One instrument, a geometrical & militarycompass, was used to find areas & volumes, & even determined how best to load & aim a cannon, thanks to this Italian astronomer, who devised it in 1597 Galileo $200 J INSTRUMENTAL IN SCIENCE 2015-03-31 #7037
In 1610 he made the amazing discovery of 4 objects circling Jupiter; he dubbed them "Medicean stars" Galileo $1,200 DJ SCIENCE GUYS 2010-01-14 #5834
This astronomer was born in Pisa, Italy February 15, 1564 Galileo $800 DJ SCIENCE GUYS 2008-02-05 #5392
In 1633 the Church condemned him to house arrest for astronomical heresy Galileo $800 J SCIENCE 2007-03-12 #5186
In 1589 he became a professor of mathematics at the U. of Pisa; in 1592 he moved on the U. of Padua Galileo $400 J MEN OF SCIENCE 2005-05-30 #4786
In 1610 this Italian made his biggest discovery: the 4 largest moons of Jupiter Galileo DD $2,000 DJ SCIENCE GUYS 2001-05-11 #3855
In 1589 he began experimenting in Pisa with falling objects using inclined planes to slow the rate of descent Galileo $200 DJ GIANTS OF SCIENCE 2001-04-16 #3836
In 1633 Descartes suppressed his book "The World" because it supported the ideas of this Italian Galileo $200 DJ SCIENCE 2000-05-09 #3622
On July 10, 1996 scientists released close-up photos of Ganymede taken by this space probe Galileo $400 J SCIENCE 1997-04-22 #2922
Around 1590 he formulated the law of falling bodies, s=1/2gt squared Galileo $600 DJ SCIENCE 1995-09-19 #2537
Evangelista Torricelli, who invented the barometer, was this scientist's secretary in 1641 & 1642 Galileo DD $2,500 DJ ITALIAN SCIENCE 1995-02-16 #2414
The first astronomer to use a telescope, he built it himself Galileo $600 DJ MEN OF SCIENCE 1993-09-16 #2074
This Italian astronomer who died in 1642 said that no man had seen more than he Galileo $200 DJ MEN OF SCIENCE 1992-01-23 #1709
Sir Isaac Newton was born in 1642, the year this great Italian scientist died Galileo $200 DJ SCIENCE 1990-09-17 #1386
Using a telescope he made himself, he invented telescope astronomy in 1609 Galileo $400 DJ SCIENCE 1987-09-30 #703
In 1633, the Inquisition forced him to recant his belief that Earth revolves around the Sun Galileo $200 J SCIENCE 1986-11-25 #512
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