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 were transferred to Massawa in Eritrea where she formed 81st Squadron of VIII Submarine Group. At the time of Italy's entrance into World War II "Galileo Galilei" was stationed at the Italian base of Massawa on the Red Sea being part of the Italian Red Sea Flotilla. On June 10, 1940 the submarine under command of captain Corrado Nardi was ordered to proceed to her area of operation near Aden where she arrived on June 12. In the early morning of June 16, while submerged, she intercepted Norwegian tanker , about 12 miles south of Aden. After surfacing and ordering