Galileo affair

his work, some of his most famous opinions were that everyone is equal, and that if everyone is happy you will be happy. Galileo and Newton were two famous scientists that made many ground-breaking discoveries. Through their discoveries we learned lots, but we also have lot’s of misunderstanding and different views of their personal greatness. As a child it was clear that Galileo had a bright future ahead of him. Throughout his life he made many discoveries and theories. He enjoyed observing…

Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa in the Duchy of Florence; he was the eldest child of six children born to Vincenzo Galilei (April 3, 1520- July 2, 1591), A well-known music theorist and musician. In 1574, he moved to Florence, where he started his education in school. In 1583, Galileo attended the University of Pisa. At his time there he became interested in the world around him and subjects like mathematics and physics. He gained a teaching job at the University of…

Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland in 1473 and died in the month of May 1543 in Frauenberg, Poland. Nicolaus’ main occupations consisted of being an astronomer, scientist, and mathematician but was also a doctor and painter. Copernicus studied at Krakow University, there he studied painting and mathematics. He then graduated from Krakow University and went to Italy, there he went to two universities, one called the University of Bologna, there he studied religious law and after…

newly invented instruments allowed scientists to observe and measure natural phenomena with increasing accuracy” (Sayre, 22.2). These new inventions included scientific discoveries formed by Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, and Galileo Galilei. Leeuwenhoek made a glass lens that magnified over 200 times. This is what led to an improvement of the microscope which in return led to the discoveries of blood cells, bacteria, and sperm. Kepler had an impact on astronomy by…

William Herschel was a British scientist and astronomer who lived and studied during the late 18th century. He had a particular fascination with space and everything it contained, and he made it his goal to understand “the construction of the heavens”. The search for new astronomical objects during Herschel’s time was huge, and at one point during his studies, he began to become very intrigued by the discovery of nebulae. This interest of Herschel was partly due to the studies of another fellow…

Galileo was a famous scientist that changed the world. Even though a lot of people doubted him he proved them all wrong. He had many interests like music, space, and gravity. Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa Italy February 15, 1564, the same year William Shakespeare was born and Michelangelo died (Hilliam,2005). Galileo was the oldest of seven children, and had four sisters and two brothers. He was homeschooled until the age of ten by Jacopo Borahini. He learned grammar and mathematics,…

Galileo was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician. He was born in Pisa in 1654 and played a very important role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance. Galileo was the first to describe speed. Before Galileo, most people did not put much thought into moving things. They just called them vaguely and simply “slow” or “fast”. Galileo is acclaimed for being the first individual to calculate speed by analyzing the distance covered and the time it…

Jupiter but the four largest are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. The man who found the moons, was Galileo Galilei who was born in Pisa in 1564, in 1581 he went to the University of Pisa to study medicine. But was sidetracked by mathematics, in 1609 is when he built his first telescope but it wasn’t no ordinary telescope. This telescope Galileo built he could discover uncharted territory. To Galileo it seemed plainly obvious that the universe was not the perfect symmetrical and earth centered…

Galileo later then expanded on Copernicus’s theory and to prove it, Galileo and made the telescope better. He saw the farthest into the universe than anyone before. He saw that there were craters on the surface of the moon. He saw that there were spots on to sun. Galileo was that there were multiple moons were orbiting Jupiter. He observed Venus moving through phases much like Earth’s moon. This information persuaded Galileo that Copernicus was right. Just as Jupiter’s moons orbited that giant…

Galileo Galilei created the telescope, used persistence to innovate ways to overcome the church (that was against him and didn’t want him to study space) and continue with improving the telescope and making a major breakthrough on studies of space. Galilei is extremely famous for improving the telescope. Most people think he invented the telescope, but he actually learned about a telescope created by Dutch eyeglass makers and fixed it up and made his own, better version. Sailors learned about…