Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa (then part of the Duchy of Florence), Italy, on 15 February 1564, the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei, a famous lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and Giulia (née Ammannati), who had married in 1562. Galileo became an accomplished lutenist himself and would have learned early from his father a scepticism for established authority, the value of well-measured or quantified experimentation, an appreciation for a periodic or musical measure of time or rhythm, as well as the results expected from a combination of mathematics and experiment. Three of Galileo's five siblings survived infancy. The youngest,
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