Galileo Galilei was born in 1564, in Pisa, Italy. His parents were Vincenzo Galilei and Guilia Ammannati. Vincenzo was born in 1520 in Venice, Italy, and was known not only as a music teacher, but also as a fine player of the flute. Vincenzo studied music in Venice and conducted experiments with strings to support his musical theories. Guilia was born in Pescia and was married to Vincenzo in 1563. Vincenzo and Guilia resided in the countryside just outside of Pisa. It was in this setting that Galileo, Vincenzo’s and Guilia’s first child, was born.

When Galileo was eight years old, his family moved to Venice, his father’s place of birth. Galileo remained in Pisa for two years staying with a relative of his mother’s. Two years later, at t

At this point, Galileo was an old, sick man. The Church took pity on him when sentencing, and instead of life in prison, they sentenced him to house arrest. Galileo’s work Discourse was smuggled out of the country and taken to Holland where it was published before his death in 1642. Galileo left behind him a legacy of discoveries. In his work Discourse, he proposed many new ideas involving impetus, moments, and centers of gravity. Galileo proposed a clock design made of pendulums, which was worked on, unsuccessfully, by his son Vincenzo, after his death. Galileo left behind him not only the proof that our universe is a heliocentric one, but also many other theories and discoveries which have aided modern scientists today. Modern scientists are very grateful that Galileo did not become a physician.

he age of ten, Galileo returned to his parents in Venice and was there tutored by Jacopo Borghini until old enough to be educated in a monastery. Once he was of age, Galileo was sent to study at Camaldolese Monastery at Vallombrosa located just southeast of Florence. Galileo soon embraced the life of the Camaldolese monk with affection. He liked the lifestyle so much in fact that he decided he wanted to join the order. Galileo’s father was not happy about this (Vincenzo’s dream for Galileo was for him to be a physician), and pulled him from the monastery.

Galileo went on to study the Medicean stars, Saturn and its rings (which his microscope showed as two independent bodies on either side of the planet due to its weakness), and Venus (whose changing phases were much like that of the moon). All of these things pointed toward one major fact: that the universe was heliocentric and that Copernicus’ beliefs were correct.

At Padua, Galileo met Maria Gamba, who was from Venice. Galileo and Maria began a long-term relationship (some say that they didn’t marry due to Galileo’s financial situation). In 1600, Maria gave birth

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