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Lesson 32 Galileo reborn Galileo Galilei (1564?–1642), commonly known as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism哥白尼主义. Galileo has been called the father of modern observational astronomy, the father of modern physics, the father of science, and the Father of Modern Science. Stephen Hawking says, Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science. Artist concept of the space telescope showing the shuttle, TDRSS, and a ground station The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) is a network of American communications satellites通信卫星 (each called a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite or TDRS) and ground stations used by NASA for space communications. The system was designed to replace an existing network of ground stations that had supported all of NASA‘s manned flight missions载人飞行任务. The prime design goal was to increase the time spacecraft were in communication with the ground and improve the amount of data that could be transferred. Relay: a piece of electrical equipment that receives radio or television signals and sends them on What has modified out traditional view of Galileo in recent times? In his own lifetime Galileo was the centre of violent controversy; but the scientific dust has long since settled, and today we can see even his famous clash with the Inquisition in something like its proper perspective. But, in contrast, it is only in modern times that Galileo has become a problem child for historians of science. The old view of Galileo was delightfully uncomplicated. He was, above all, a man who experimented: who despised the prejudices and book learning of the Aristotelians, who put his questions to nature instead of to the ancients, and who drew his conclusions