Galileo Galilei of her life. Vincenzo was later legitimised as the legal heir of Galileo and married Sestilia Bocchineri. Although Galileo seriously considered the priesthood as a young man, at his father's urging he instead enrolled in 1580 at the University of Pisa for a medical degree. In 1581, when he was studying medicine, he noticed a swinging chandelier, which air currents shifted about to swing in larger and smaller arcs. To him, it seemed, by comparison with his heartbeat, that the chandelier took the same amount of time to swing back and forth, no matter how far it was swinging. When
Italian submarine Galileo Galilei Italian submarine Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei was an Italian "Archimede"-class submarine built for the Royal Italian Navy ("Regia Marina") during the 1930s. She was named after a famous Italian scientist Galileo Galilei. The ships were designed by the firm Cavallini and were an enlarged version of the preceding . Among the changes were the partially double hulled design, the boats had their ballast tanks rearranged, their range, fuel capacity were increased, and the armament strengthened. The number of torpedoes was increased from 12 on the "Settembrini" class to 16. They displaced surfaced and submerged. The submarines were long, had a