Life of Galileo

well-known scientists to begin resisting the church control while limiting religious influences in his work was Galileo. Galileo made his discoveries by using a telescope and was determined to prove that the heliocentric model of the universe was correct, while trying to not go against and disprove the church and the teachings of the Bible (Galileo on Nature, Scripture, and Truth, pg. 391). Galileo believed that nature and the Bible could co-exist peacefully without much contradiction, but…

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…

philosophy, Galileo Galilei is widely known as one of the key individuals of the Renaissance era’s Scientific Revolution, What many people do not know, however, is that Galileo was a victim of the Roman Inquisition. The documents of this trial, named “From the Later-Trial Documents (1632-33)”, were requested to be recorded by His Holiness Pope Urban VIII, and written mostly by the Holy Order. Galileo may have also written, or at least dictated, portions of the document such as his abjuration.…

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 Galilei once said “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564 Galilei was an Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist. Who then died on January 8, 1642. He was a man of many talents who was able to invent his own telescope. He invented his first telescope in 1609, Galileo built on the work of others to create a telescope with around 3x magnification, he later improved on this to make…

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…

received, Torricelli became Castelli’s assistant. Torricelli became increasingly more interested in astronomy, but chose to pursue mathematics as he saw how Galileo, his idol, was treated for speaking about disputed theories. He got to work with Galileo in 1641, until the famous astronomer’s death three months later. Torricelli succeeded Galileo as the…

people were not only shocked but also spiritually threatened by the new discovery that the Sun was actually in the center not the Earth. The “new philosophy” (since there was no word for “science” at the time) is the Copernican revolution. In 1610 Galileo had published the world’s first scientific bestseller, The Starry Messenger. This revolutionary work argued that the heavens are not organized the way astronomers, philosophers, and theologians had taught for ages (Alvarez & Leitão, 2010). As…

discovery. What Edison and the previous developers had in common was their dedication to create a light to help people out of the dark. “An ancient lamp and a modern one then had only one thing in common, and that only from the perspective of everyday life: their purpose was to defeat the dark.” [9]. Though it is arguable that these discoveries were due to personal ambition, Scientific advancements often led to further discoveries in the…

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…