Galileo Galilei - Galileo became an accomplished lutenist himself

Time: 1560s

Place: Pisa, Italy

Details: Galileo became an accomplished lutenist himself and would have learned early from his father a scepticism for established authority, the value of well-measured or quantified experimentation, an appreciation for a periodic or musical measure of time or rhythm, as well as the results expected from a combination of mathematics and experiment.

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