“I’m Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), I’m commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei (/ˌɡælɪˈleɪoʊ ˌɡælɪˈleɪ/, US also /ˌɡælɪˈliːoʊ -/; Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]) or mononymously as Galileo, I was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. I was born in the city of Pisa, then part of the Duchy of Florence. I have been called the father of observational astronomy, modern-era classical physics, the scientific method, and modern science.”