Abstract
It is frequently noted that Galileo Galilei was born on the day of Michelangelo's death (February 15, 1564), and that he died in the year of Newton's birth (1642). These facts are significant as emphasizing Galileo's position between the Renaissance with its reverence for the opinions of the Greek philosophers and the age of exact science with its demand for experimental confirmation of its theories. It has been said of Galileo that "He belongs among that small group of men such as Petrarch, Erasmus, and Voltaire, whose lives stand for a transitional epoch in the history of men's minds, who at once bear the marks of the age they help to supplant, and in their thoughts create and anticipate the development of succeeding ages."1
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