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
Museo Galileo Among the most important exhibitions in Italy and the world: "Renaissance Engineers: From Brunelleschi to Leonardo da Vinci"; "The Mind of Leonardo: The Universal Genius at Work"; "The Medici and Science"; "Galileo’s Telescope: The Instrument that Changes the World"; "Galileo: Images of the Universe from Antiquity to the Telescope"; "Vinum Nostrum: Art, Science and Myths of Wine in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures"; "Archimedes: The Arte and Science of Invention". Museo Galileo publishes historical scientific works and two journals, which are "", and "Galilaeana", devoted to research about the figure, work and scientific findings of Galileo Galilei. The Nuncius Library series publishes