What is the significance in Galileo having the same first and last name?
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It's Galileo Galilei.\n\nGalilei (his father's last name) means "son of Galileo", so probably his grandfather or grandgrandfather was called Galileo.
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Most last names were derived from what the person did for a lving.  Since Jesus was a  Shepherd perhaps that was  his name.  His father Joseph was a Carpenter so that also could have been his name
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I did a little checking. Most Saints with commoner names are differentiated by saying 'of such and such a place' Example: St. Francis of Assisi & St. Francis de Sales. The closest I saw to use of a last name is this:\nSt. Thomas Aquinus and St. Thomas More.
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Unfortunately, I think it's pretty impossible to say exactly who first named the planet 'Earth'. Actually, I really doubt one person really named it intentionally; rather it developed over time as part of the English language. Earth is Old English and German in origin, related to the Old Saxon 'ertha', the Dutch 'aerde', and the German 'erda'. Terra is a French and Latin word, and so isn't part of the 'Earth' etymology. I'm not really an expert on words and word origins, but it seems likely that people used Earth to mean 'land' and then it was the natural thing to refer to all the land and the planet. I tried to look up more specific details about the specific usage of the word over time, but even the Oxford English Dictionary (online) admits: \n\n"Men's notions of the shape and position of the earth have so greatly changed since Old Teutonic times, while the language of the older notions has long outlived them, that it is very difficult to arrange the senses and applications of the word in any historical order." \n\nSo, as with the names of the other planets that have been known throughout human history (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), it's difficult to say who first thought of the planet as Earth. The names were part of culture even before we really understood the significance of what planets are and where they are in space.
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I know that many south Indians use their fathers first name as a last name...(SOUTH INDIA) I've also heard that some  Scandinavian countries follow the same method.Such as Denmark and Sweden.
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Sir Isaac Newton, PRS, (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist,chemist, inventor, and natural philosopher who is generally regarded as one of the most influential scientists and mathematicians in history.\n\nNewton wrote the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica wherein he described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics. By deriving Kepler's laws of planetary motion from this system, he was the first to show that the motion of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws. The unifying and deterministic power of his laws was integral to the scientific revolution and the advancement of heliocentrism.\n\nAmong other scientific discoveries, Newton realized that the spectrum of colours observed when white light passes through a prism is inherent in the white light and not added by the prism (as Roger Bacon had claimed in the 13th century), and notably argued that light is composed of particles. He also developed a law of cooling, describing the rate of cooling of objects when exposed to air. He enunciated the principles of conservation of momentum and angular momentum. Finally, he studied the speed of sound in air, and voiced a theory of the origin of stars. Despite this renown in mainstream science, Newton spent more time working on either alchemy or chemistry, than physics.\n\nNewton played a major role in the history of calculus, sharing credit with Gottfried Leibniz. He also made contributions to other areas of mathematics, for example the generalized binomial theorem. The mathematician and mathematical physicist Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813), said that "Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish." 20\n \n\n\nBiography\nEarly years\nThe life of Isaac Newton Early life Writing Principia Later life Religious views Occult studies  \nNewton was born in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth (at Woolsthorpe Manor), a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. Newton was born prematurely, and no one expected him to live; indeed, his mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, is reported to have said that his body at that time could have fit inside a quart mug (Bell, 1937). His father, Isaac, had died three months before Newton's birth. When Newton was two, his mother went to live with her new husband, leaving her son in the care of his grandmother.\n\nAccording to E.T. Bell (1937, Simon and Schuster) and H. Eves:\n\nNewton began his schooling in the village schools and was later sent to The Kings Grammar School (Grantham) where he became the top boy in the school. At Kings he lodged with the local apothecary, William Clarke and eventually became engaged to the apothecary's stepdaughter, Anne Storer, before he went off to Cambridge University at the age of 19. As Newton became engrossed in his studies, the romance cooled and Miss Storer married someone else. It is said he kept a warm memory of this love, but Newton had no other recorded 'sweethearts' and never married. \nHowever, William Stukeley and Mrs Vincent, the source which Bell and Eves have embroidered so unhelpfully, merely say that Newton entertained 'a passion' for her while he lodged at the Clarke house. Mrs Vincent's maiden name was Katherine Storer, not Anne.\n\n \nEngraving after Enoch Seeman's 1726 portrait of NewtonFrom the age of about twelve until he was seventeen, Newton was educated at The King's School in Grantham (where his signature can still be seen upon a library window sill). He was removed from school and by Oct 1659 he was to be found at Woolsthorpe where his mother attempted to make a farmer of him. He was, by later reports of his contemporaries, thoroughly unhappy with the work. It appears to be Henry Stokes, master at the Ki
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it can't be because you will find millions have the same first name in one country
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He is related to the Founders.  It is explained in the Series.  It does make for an interesting nature vs nurture debate.
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Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher.\n\nHe was born in February 15, 1564 and died January 8, 1642\n\nAt that time there were no such things as internets or mobile phones and the printing press (allowing mass production of articles on paper) wasn't around until another 200 or so years.\n\nGalileo's only method of communication at that times was word of mouth and communication on pieces of parchment that were delivered by messengers on horse-back.
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Some of the answers in this are ridiculous.  In the "G" lecture of the second degree, the candidate is told that it represents "geometry" which is the Liberal Art/Science most revered by Masons, and that, more importantly it is the initial letter of God.  both of these things are discussed in the same 5 minute lecture.  Sorry to dissapoint the answerer who had a whole theory worked up.
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The only names I can think of that are close are Polybius and Polycarpus.   Polybius was a Greek historian ca. 200 BC, and St. Polycarp was an early Catholic martyr (aD 155).  I suspect that it is probably in reference to the latter, if the name is in church registers.  The Latinized version of Polycarp is Polycarpus.  The name was in use in the medieval period, and I know a Mexican family who used the name Polycarpo as a first name for several generations.  We don't use it here in America, though.
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Aristotle, Archimedes, Galileo. Other scientists, who came before him.
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You'll have to go to the School and check.\nThis is done to avoid confusion between people who have the same names. Believe me, three people in my class had the same name right down to their initials!
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maybe quite a few ppl have last names that start with g, itsa not like its that uncommon
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo
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Yes. Two names - same game.
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He didn't. It was a nickname. It means filius Bonacci, son of Bonacci. Like we would say Johnson or Robinson. Or in Iceland they would say Robertsdottir for Robert's daughter.\n\nHe never used the name himself. He was known as Leonardo of Pisa, or Latinising it, Leonardo Pisano. He sometimes referred to himself as Leonardo Bigollo as in Tuscany Bigollo means a traveller.