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OCR: GALILEO GALILEI that a pendulum's swing always 1564-1642 takes the same time, even as the E width of swing changes. In 1592 he F made the first thermometer, in G which a gas expanded when it was hot and contracted when cool. H Galileo was also interested in astronomy. In 1632, he published a K book explaining how the Earth L moves around the Sun. This greatly M angered the Catholic Church, which taught that the Earth was at the GALILEO GALILEI, the son of a center of the solar system. Galileo P was arrested and forced to deny his R poor nobleman, was born in theories in public. S Pisa, Italy. He was educated in a After this, he lived quietly in T monastery and intended to become a Florence until his death in 1642. u doctor, but became interested in science and geometry. W During his life, he made many Y discoveries. In 1581, he observed Thermometer 7 M