This was one of many awards Galileo received throughout his life. However, is position was not enough for Galileo, so he sought to be the chairman of mathematics at the University of Bologna, but they did not give him the job. Even though he did not get that job, he was asked by the “Florentine Academy to give two lectures about a prestigious literary group, on the arrangement of the world in Dante’s Inferno” (Helden). After doing that, he discovered an ingenious idea about the center of gravity. Because of this idea, he ended up begging the chairman of mathematics at the University of Pisa for a job to continue his research. He got his dream job, and with it he found a new way to think of gravity, discovering that “the speed of fall of a
