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about 12 billion years ago, scientists think from a singular explosion. The universe was born in those first moments, intensely hot hydrogen and helium raced outward, thinning, cooling and clumping into vast organized structures. Within a few billion years, countless Galaxies had emerged, each one containing hundreds of billions of stars constantly changing in cycles of birth, death and rebirth. In one of these Galaxies about five billion years ago, one average sized star our sun, captured in its gravitational field the gas and dust that would become nine planets. 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 15 99 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