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Galileo Galilei was born February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy. He was a Tuscan (Italian) astronomer, physicist, mathematician, inventor, and philosopher and his father was a musician. His father had planned for him to study medicine, but he went to study mathematics. Galileo had many accomplishments / developments that change our world even till today. Galileo had many accomplishments that made him different from other people during the 15th century. He acquired his knowledge since his dad sent him to university to study medicine, but he actually went to study mathematics. He became smart at what he did and as a result he was awarded a lecturer at the university he went to and many more. Prior to receiving that award, he had to leave the University of Pisa because he had insufficient funds to pay for it. So he went back home and during that time he wrote an essays on hydrostatic balance, and a paper on center of gravity of solids, which made him a lecturer and a teacher at the University of Pisa. He had made many things famous and most of them weren't his. He had sketches of microscopes but never invented it. He also didn't invent the telescope but he did made it famous. He had made his own telescope that helped him with a lot of his discoveries. This helped him with his research about space and other stuff that changed history. When he had created his 1st telescope that was the best around he took it to Rome and demonstrated it to the duke of Tuscany. This made him a bit more recognized and because of this he was being paid more and better. He was working at the University of Pisa. When he had created his own telescope he had made many discoveries that changed history.. He had discovered the phases of venus, satellites (moons) from jupiter, our moon, sun spots and how Earth is not the center of the galaxy but it's actually the sun. This was called the heliocentric view. When he discovered Venus’s phases this helped him with his theory that the sun is the center and not the Earth and when he discovered the moon this also helped him because the moon also has phases. These phases happen when the sun hits the planet or moon and creates shadows. When he made this discovery that jupiter has moons he had named them the Galilean moons. Sunspots was spot on the sun but professors thought differently from Galileo. These spots were just spots that the sun gave out. He was also famous when he thought different from Aristotle's theory where he drops bodies and concludes that bodies fall at different time even though weight is different. Galileo did not believe this theory but did believe Archimedes theory that even though bodies have different weight the fall is still the same rate. Because of this discovery he had found, this made him unpopular with his colleagues the believe in Aristotle's theory which were a lot. This also affected his job at the university and when his dad died he didn't have enough money to help him. When he did this it was called the theory of uniform acceleration He did a lot that changed the world and that change him. Some stuff he did was make the priest mad and that thing was that he talked about the heliocentric view to them and the people from the church believed that the earth was the center and not the sun. The church was mad but still let him do his research if it did not involve church. But because …show more content…
His telescopes was made from another telescope from europe. That telescope was only able to magnify objects 3 times its size, but Galileo’s telescope was able to magnify objects 20 times its normal size. This helped him view space a whole new way like how the sun is the center and not the earth. He also discovered that Venus and Earth’s moon had phase which also helped him with his theory about the heliocentric view. His telescope had discovered more discoveries like Jupiter’s moons (just 4) which were named the Galilean moons. His telescope also found sunspots and he was also able to observe a

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