Galileo

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Galileo
       n : Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to
           use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that
           different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the
           refracting telescope that enabled him to make many
           discoveries (1564-1642) [syn: {Galileo Galilei}]



From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Galileo
       
          ["Galileo: A Strongly Typed Interactive Conceptual Language",
          A.  Albano et al, ACM Trans Database Sys 10(2):230-260 (June
          1985)].