Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy. He was the son of Italian musician and musical theorist, Vincenzo Galilei, and Giulia Ammannati. Galileo was the oldest of 5 children in his family. Not only was he a mathematic professor and astronomer, but he was also a scientist. In fact, he was nicknamed “The Father of Modern Science”. In 1574, Galileo and his family moved to Florence, Italy. Here, he started going to school at Camaldolese monastery near Vallombrosa. After…

Galileo Galilei had an interesting life. Galileo was born in Pisa on February 15, 1564. He was the first out of six children to be born in his family and his father was, Vincenzo Galilei. Later on in life, he started his education in a nearby monastery. Then in 1581 his father sent him to the University of Pisa to study medicine and philosophy of Aristotle for 4 years. Eventually, he told himself he didn’t like studying medicine, so he decided to do mathematics. With his love of mathematics he…

Who is Galileo Galilei? Galileo Galilei was a famous physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor and philosopher from a very important part of the renaissance called the scientific revolution. He was born on the 15th of February in Pisa, Italy. When he was young his father sent him to school to study medicine at the university of Pisa, but quickly got bored and decided to study mathematics instead. He later became a professor at the university, and went on to discover a lot more about…

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…

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 Galilei was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy. He died on January 8, 1642 in Arcetri somewhere near Florence Italy. “Galileo was and is seen as the ‘hero of modern science’” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). The reason for this is because he made many discoveries and was known for his work as an engineer, philosopher and mathematician while playing a major role in science during the Renaissance. Galileo was the oldest child in his family, born in Pisa, Italy, but he later…

Aristotelian view of the universe has been widely accepted by both scientists and theologians, though, Galileo Galilei’s observations in Siderius Nuncius, meaning “The Starry Messenger” in latin, has contradicted these beliefs. Galileo Galilei, born February 15, 1564, a renowned physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician, invented an improved version of the optical telescope in 1610. Galileo was not the first to invent an optical telescope, an object used to…

Galileo created huge changes in the seventeenth century. Firstly, Galileo created the law of inertia, which was that when an object is in motion, it keeps on motion until it is stopped by a force. Galileo's most prized invention was the advancement of the telescope. The advancement of the…

Galileo Galilei was a famous Italian Polymath. He was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy. He was the oldest of six children. His father was a musician and scholar. Galileo and his family moved to Florence, where Galileo started his education at the Camaldolese monastery in Vallombrosa, in 1574. He was a naturally very intelligent boy. In 1583 he went to the University of Pisa to study medicine not knowing of what his heart would soon desire. He was very very smart and talented. He soon…

established religion - after Nicolaus Copernicus's revolution. Many scientific discoveries were made by Copernicus, Brahe, and Kepler, but their discoveries were not viewed as challenging toward the church. However, some of the discoveries of Galileo Galilei were viewed as controversial. Many of Galileo's discoveries challenged the ideas that were commonly held at the time and his findings contradicted the Bible and the ideas of Aristotle and Plato, so he was chastised by the church.…