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Like many other philosophers who greatly extended our knowledge of nature, Galileo had a remarkable aptitude for the invention of instruments designed for philosophical research to facilitate his practical work, We find that in 1599 he had engaged a skilled workmen who was to live in his house and be constantly at hand to try the devices which were forever springing from Galileo's fertile brain. Once upon a time, the king's youngest son became filled with the desire to go abroad and see the world he got his father's permission to leave on adventure, kissed both his parents goodbye, mounted his blackhorse and galloped away down the high road. Soon the great towers of the old castle in which he was born, disappeared behind him.