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Galileo is a song by Emily Saliers
Emily Saliers

Emily Saliers is an United States singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. Saliers plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukelele, bouzouki and many other instruments....
, recorded and performed by the Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls

Indigo Girls are an American folk rock duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They got their start in Atlanta, Georgia as a regular act at The Little 5 Points Pub and were tangentially part of the Athens, Georgia college rock scene that included The B-52's, Pylon , R.E.M., The Georgia Satellites, and Love Tractor....
. It was released in 1992 on Rites of Passage
Rites of Passage (album)

Rites of Passage is the fourth studio album by Indigo Girls, released in 1992. It was remastered and reissued in 2000 with two bonus tracks....
, the Indigo Girls' platinum-selling fourth studio album. It reached #10 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, the first song by the Indigo Girls to break the top ten.

The song's lyrics discuss reincarnation
Reincarnation

Reincarnation, literally "to be made flesh again", is a doctrine or Metaphysics belief that some essential part of a living being survives death to be reborn in a new body....
, partially through the lens of the story of Galileo Galilei, the 17th century physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution
Scientific revolution

The period which many History of science call the Scientific Revolution is commonly viewed as the foundation and origin of modern science.It was a time roughly coinciding with the later part of the Middle Ages and through the Renaissance in which scientific ideas in physics, astronomy, and biology evolved rapidly....
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Galileo is a song by Emily Saliers
Emily Saliers

Emily Saliers is an United States singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. Saliers plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukelele, bouzouki and many other instruments....
, recorded and performed by the Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls

Indigo Girls are an American folk rock duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They got their start in Atlanta, Georgia as a regular act at The Little 5 Points Pub and were tangentially part of the Athens, Georgia college rock scene that included The B-52's, Pylon , R.E.M., The Georgia Satellites, and Love Tractor....
. It was released in 1992 on Rites of Passage
Rites of Passage (album)

Rites of Passage is the fourth studio album by Indigo Girls, released in 1992. It was remastered and reissued in 2000 with two bonus tracks....
, the Indigo Girls' platinum-selling fourth studio album. It reached #10 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, the first song by the Indigo Girls to break the top ten.

The song's lyrics discuss reincarnation
Reincarnation

Reincarnation, literally "to be made flesh again", is a doctrine or Metaphysics belief that some essential part of a living being survives death to be reborn in a new body....
, partially through the lens of the story of Galileo Galilei, the 17th century physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution
Scientific revolution

The period which many History of science call the Scientific Revolution is commonly viewed as the foundation and origin of modern science.It was a time roughly coinciding with the later part of the Middle Ages and through the Renaissance in which scientific ideas in physics, astronomy, and biology evolved rapidly....
. The song's chorus describes Galileo as the "king of night vision, king of insight", referencing both the clarity of physical vision made possible through his modernizations of the telescope
Telescope

A telescope is an instrument designed for the observation of remote objects by the collection of electromagnetic radiation. The first known practically functioning telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century....
 and his support of Copernicanism
Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically-based heliocentrism cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe....
, which stated that the sun, rather than the earth, was the center of the universe.

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