At age ten, Galileo left Pisa to join his family in which city?

At age ten, Galileo left Pisa to join his family in Florence.

Galileo was born in Pisa in 1564, but his family moved to Florence when he was still a child. He remained in Pisa for about two years under the care of Muzio Tedaldi before joining his family in Florence at age ten. There, Jacopo Borghini became one of his tutors.

Florence played an important role in Galileo’s early education. He later studied with the Vallombrosan monks at Vallombrosa Abbey, located southeast of the city. His early exposure to logic, philosophy, and religious schooling helped prepare him for university, even though his interests eventually shifted strongly toward mathematics and natural philosophy.

The move is easy to confuse with Galileo’s later travels. He studied at the University of Pisa beginning in 1580, taught in Pisa later, worked at Padua, and returned to Florence in 1610 as court philosopher and mathematician to the Medici. The childhood destination, however, was Florence.