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How did Galileo's father influence his interest in scientific experimentation?

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Galileo’s studies of mathematics, opposed at first by his father, progressed rapidly; in 1585 he left the university without a degree and returned to Florence, where he pursued the study of Euclid and Archimedes privately.
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