Life of Galileo

Galileo Galilei’s contributions to science was great. After building his own telescope, he became the first person to study this stars. Galileo’s first discovery was that Jupiter had four satellites circling it. He noted that these satellites were much like our Earth’s moon. Another one of Galileo’s more famous discoveries was the moon’s surface. It was previously thought by the Aristotelians that the moon’s surface was smooth, but upon further observation Galileo discovered that the moon was…

shines brightly for a moment, casting a troupe of dancing shadows upon the cracked plaster ceiling. A sudden gust of wind from the window puts an abrupt end to the flame. Darkness shrouds his solar. ‘I have had enough light for tonight’s work,’ muses Galileo. The large desk at which he sits is now bare. Moments earlier, to his acquiescent silence, agents of the Catholic Church had relieved the great physicist of his writing, as they did every night. ‘If I cannot sate the hunger for knowledge of…

house arrest towards the end of his life. Galileo is responsible for developing modern astronomy. He enlightened many people during the Renaissance in Italy, and he continues to enlighten all of us today. He caused major advancements in science during the Renaissance and created an easier way of thinking. Although the task was very hard and nobody believed him at first, he really did change our history and the way humans think. The Renaissance was a time Galileo proved his theory was right…

Galileo Galileo Galilei is one of the early men that helped to develop and discover the world, as we know it today. The man, who most people simply just call Galileo, was a brilliant mathematician, astronomer, and scientist. Galileo was born on February 15th, 1564 (Galileo Galilei). He, his parents Vincenzo Galilei and Guilia Ammannati, and his five siblings were in the middle class but Galileo was still given the opportunity to attend the University. Galileo was encouraged to study medicine…

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…

Galileo was a man with confidence in what he believed in, but how did he express that? As Galileo Galilei once said “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use”(BrainyQuote.com). In this essay, I will describe Galileo’s life, his revolutionary idea and how his idea worked, and its importance to the world. Revolutionary ideas are not easy to come by, They are even harder to make into a reality.…

as physics? I know, I do! I’m pretty sure you do to. Not only has this changed the way we learn at school but as well as changing out history of math and physics. Galileo, made experiments to which we could advance from them later on in the future. Well we can thank Galileo, for coming up with the solution to our problems. However, Galileo was basically trying to find the speed of two different objects falling at the same time and finding out the right calculations to his own work. As well as,…

belief that Earth is the center of the Universe and everything revolves around it (chuckfarlieAUS). Although in the 16th and 17th century, there was a rapid succession of new theories that became relevant. New astronomers, like Nicolas Copernicus and Galileo Galilei, showed reasons as too why their ideas about a heliocentric system, or everything revolving around the sun, were true. Nicolas Copernicus was an astronomer that…

Galileo Galilei was born the oldest of 6 brothers and sisters in Pisa, Italy, on February 15, 1564. Early in his life, he developed interests in music, as well as math and physics. As a young man, Galileo attended the University of Pisa, where he studied medicine to become a doctor. However, he later left the university due to financial issues, but continued to study mathematics on his own. In 1609, Galileo constructed his first telescope- a device which he would later use to make his well-…

Galileo's lived a successful and made many accomplishments in life; creating world changing inventions and perspectives of the world. He received support from his family and from the family he grew. He was the one of six siblings, born in Pisa, Italy February 15, 1564. As he grew up and his family moving around, he decided to travel. Even though he didn’t settle during this time but once he began his travels he met a beautiful women Marina Gamba in Venice. He didn’t quit settle down, but in the…