The Father of Modern Science: Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei is an important historical figure who is known as the Father of Modern Science. He was a polymath meaning he excelled in many sciences. He was a physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, and an excellent inventor. Galileo greatly affected history and if he had not made his discoveries it is possible that we could be living in a very different world today.
In the beginning…
Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. His parents were Vincenzio Galilei and Giulia di Cosimo Ammannati. Vincenzio was a musician and did several mathematical tests to explain how different instruments got their ranges. This most likely had an effect on Galileo. Galileo was the oldest …show more content…
The Copernican theory, on the other hand, suggests heliocentricity, meaning everything orbits the Sun and the Sun is in the centre of the universe. Galileo supported the Copernican theory because, with his telescope, he observed Jupiter’s four major moons on multiple occasions and found that they seemed to orbit Jupiter instead of the Earth. He disproved the Aristotelian theory with many experiments. His most famous experiment being his law of motion experiment in which Galileo got a musket ball and a cannonball and launched them off of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Both balls landed close to the same time; the musket ball hit the ground a small portion of a second later due to air …show more content…
Galileo heard of this and realized that these spyglasses would be useful for identifying trade ships. He wrote to his friend Friar Paolo Sarpi and Friar delayed the decision on the Dutchman’s spyglass long enough for Galileo to make his own and improve it. When he brought his telescope to the Senate and the doge, they could “see boats coming into port two hours before they could be seen by the naked eye” (Hilliam 39). Galileo gave the doge the telescope and in return, the doge reinstated Galileo as mathematics chairman for life and doubled his pay. Galileo kept one of his telescope prototypes and was able to increase the magnification to twenty times better than the naked eye. Using this telescope, as I have said previously, he discovered sunspots the Moon’s craters, Jupiter’s moons, and Saturn’s
Galileo Galilei is an important historical figure who is known as the Father of Modern Science. He was a polymath meaning he excelled in many sciences. He was a physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, and an excellent inventor. Galileo greatly affected history and if he had not made his discoveries it is possible that we could be living in a very different world today.
In the beginning…
Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. His parents were Vincenzio Galilei and Giulia di Cosimo Ammannati. Vincenzio was a musician and did several mathematical tests to explain how different instruments got their ranges. This most likely had an effect on Galileo. Galileo was the oldest …show more content…
The Copernican theory, on the other hand, suggests heliocentricity, meaning everything orbits the Sun and the Sun is in the centre of the universe. Galileo supported the Copernican theory because, with his telescope, he observed Jupiter’s four major moons on multiple occasions and found that they seemed to orbit Jupiter instead of the Earth. He disproved the Aristotelian theory with many experiments. His most famous experiment being his law of motion experiment in which Galileo got a musket ball and a cannonball and launched them off of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Both balls landed close to the same time; the musket ball hit the ground a small portion of a second later due to air …show more content…
Galileo heard of this and realized that these spyglasses would be useful for identifying trade ships. He wrote to his friend Friar Paolo Sarpi and Friar delayed the decision on the Dutchman’s spyglass long enough for Galileo to make his own and improve it. When he brought his telescope to the Senate and the doge, they could “see boats coming into port two hours before they could be seen by the naked eye” (Hilliam 39). Galileo gave the doge the telescope and in return, the doge reinstated Galileo as mathematics chairman for life and doubled his pay. Galileo kept one of his telescope prototypes and was able to increase the magnification to twenty times better than the naked eye. Using this telescope, as I have said previously, he discovered sunspots the Moon’s craters, Jupiter’s moons, and Saturn’s