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Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei competed for two longitude prizes in the 17th century.
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Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei created this device to calculate the motions of Jupiter’s moons.
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In 1642, for a Dutch longitude prize, Galileo proposed both an astronomical solution and an accurate sea clock—the first clock ever to have a pendulum.
