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Vincenzo Galilei

Italian musician and theorist (1520–1591)

This article is about Galileo's father. For Galileo's son, see Vincenzo Gamba.

Vincenzo Galilei (3 April 1520 – 2 July 1591) was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist. His children included the astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei and the lute virtuoso and composer Michelagnolo Galilei. Vincenzo was a figure in the musical life of the late Renaissance and contributed significantly to the musical revolution that demarcates the beginning of the Baroque era.

In his study of pitch and string tension, Galilei produced perhaps the first non-linear mathematical description of a natural phenomenon known to history.^[1] Some credit him with directing the activity of his son away from pure, abstract mathematics and towards experimentation using mathematical quantitative description of the results, a direction of importance for the history of physics and natural science.

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He was born in 1520 in Santa Maria a Monte, near Pisa, Tuscany^[2] and began studying the lute at an early age. His mother was from San Vincenzo near Livorno.^[3] Sometime before 1562 he moved to Pisa, where on 5 July he married Giulia Ammannati of a noble family. Galileo Galilei was the o

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On the Life of Galileo: Viviani's Historical Account and Other Early Biographies

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