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Galileo obtains the chair of mathematics at the university of Padua in the Venetian Republic (salary 160 ducats per year), where he remains until 1610. His initial contract is for four years, renewable for two further years. His inaugural lecture is on 7 December, and his first regular lecture on 13 December. His duties are to lecture on geometry and astronomy. He gives private lessons on Euclid, arithmetic, fortification, surveying, cosmography, optics, and the use of the sector.
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Galileo worked for a time as a private tutor and ... carried out some writing on hydrostatics. In 1589 at the age of twenty five he obtained a post at Pisa as professor of mathematics, but in 1592, they did not renew his contract. It is believed this was because Galileo directly contradicted the professors, who strictly followed the classical doctrine of Aristotle. Galileo was appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University of Padua the same year.
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In December, Galileo becomes chair of the mathematics department at the University of Padua in the Republic of Venice. He gives lectures on geometry and astronomy in addition to private lessons on Euclid, cosmography, and other subjects.
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