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GALILEO AND SHAKESPEARE

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1564 Galileo born in Pisa

1564 Shakespeare born in Stratford-Upon-Avon

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1583 Shakespeare first child born

1589 Galileo develops early thermometer

1589-1590 Shakespeare writes Henry VI part one

1592 Galileo begins teaching at University of Padua

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1595 Shakespeare believed to have written A Midsummer Night's Dream

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1596 Shakespeare's son dies

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1601 Galileo first child born in Padua

1601 Shakespeare probably completed Hamlet

1604 Galileo accelerated motion

1604 Shakespeare Measure for Measure

1609 Galileo telescope

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1610 Galilean moons

1610 Othello performed at Oxford College

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1611 Shakespeare writes The Tempest

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Papal edict issued against Copernicus

1616 Shakespeare dies

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1623 First Folio published

Bubonic plague reaches Florence

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Galileo dialogue

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Galileo stands trial

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Galileo dies

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