((Galileo)) ((Galilei)) returned 6 hits

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Author: Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576)
Liber de Ludo Alaea, a practical guide to gambling, containing the first systematic computation of probabilities; written in 1562, but not published until 1663.
Category: Statistics & Graphics
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Author: Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
Improvements in instruments for accurately measuring positions of stars and planets, providing the most accurate catalog on which later discoveries (e.g., Kepler's laws) would be based
Category: Technology
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Author: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Discovery of isosynchronous property of the pendulum (to be used for clocks and measurement)
Category: Technology
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Author: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
The first astronomical pictures ever printed, from observations through a telescope, used to illustrate discoveries of craters on the moon, the 4 staelites of Jupiter and a vast number of stars never seen by unaided eyes
Category: Technology
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Author: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Statistical analysis of observations on location of Tycho Brahe's star of 1572, based on idea that the most probable hypothesis is the one having the smallest (least absolute value) deviations
Category: Statistics & Graphics
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Author: Christopher Wren (1632-1723)
Automatic recording device (the weather clock) producing a moving graph of temperature and wind direction (in polar coordinates)
Category: Technology