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 machine guns. "Galileo Galilei" was built at Tosi shipyard at Taranto. She was launched on March 19, 1934 and commissioned on October 16 of the same year . After delivery, "Galileo Galilei" together with other submarines of "Archimede"-class was assigned to 12th Squadron of the III Flotilla, later to become 41st and then 44th Submarine Squadron of the VII Submarine Group, based at Taranto. After a period of intensive training and short cruises, the Squadron was sent for training to Tobruk. In 1937, along with many other submarines of the Royal Italian Navy ("Regia Marina"), "Galileo Galilei" secretly participated in