... the law of inertia and paving the way for the work of Sir Isaac Newton in the 17th century."(Spark -- Galileo Galilei 1). He discovered the microscope and telescope. Galileo reiterated the studies of Copernicus, but armed with the telescope his discoveries came much easier. Once word reached the Church that ... "I think, therefore I am.", was the basis of his theories. He was about to publish a book about his theories of nature, when he got word of Galileo's fate, and gave it a second thought. The other most important asset to The Scientific Revolution was Isaac Newton, from England. "A...

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... a lens to attract light was developed by a Dutch optician in 1608 named Hans Lippershey. Two other inventors were Zacharias Jannssen and Jacob Metius. However, Galileo perfected the refracting telescope within a year and he became the first one to point a telescope up to the sky for observation. Refracting telescope: Refraction refers ... would build the eyepiece onto the side so that the light will come out the side. 3 #) Four telescopic discoveries made by Galileo were: 1) Venus goes through phases similar to those of the moon. This is significant because it proved that Venus goes arou...

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... the sun. Incredible! Being such a large and bright planet, Jupiter was able to be seen and was known to exist even back in the prehistoric times. Galileo, living from 1564-1642, discovered that Jupiter had four large moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. This was discovered in 1610. We now know today that ... Jupiter has thirty-nine known satellites, the most in the solar system. With the discovery of the four large moons by Galileo, it showed that there was a center of motion not apparently centered on the Earth, which was the believed idea of the time. This theory ended up ... the...

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... (Jupiter 1). Jupiter is the King of the Gods, the ruler of Olympus and the patron of the Roman state. In 1610, Galileo discovered Jupiter, and Pioneer 10 first visited it in 1973 and currently, the spacecraft Galileo is orbiting around Jupiter. Galileo will be sending back information for the next two years (Jupiter 2).. Jupiter is about as big as a gas planet can get ... planet from the sun and the second largest. Rings (or bands) are the classic distinction, which observers give to Saturn. "In roman mythology, Saturn is the god of agriculture" (Saturn 1). Galileo first discovered Satu...

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... probe began it's voyage in October of 1997 (Kuhn 280-282). There are many aspects of Saturn that make it one of the most extraordinary planets in this solar system. Galileo Galilei was the first to view Saturn's system of rings in the year 1610. Because he happened to be viewing their edge, he failed to recognize them as rings. In ... similar to those he had discovered near the planet Jupiter. In 1655, a Dutch astronomer named Christiaan Huygens was able to discern what Galileo had thought to be moons as rings. Huygens benefited from a much improved telescope than that used by Galileo. ...

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... , so people assumed that his ideas were true. Thus, these ideas from Aristotle were "obstacles" to the scientific revolution. A few scientists that challenged Aristotle's ideas were Copernicus, Brahe, Gilbert, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, and Newton. Their ideas and discoveries made it impossible to maintain the old world view. Copernicus believed that Earth was not at the center of the universe and it ... more quickly when it is closer to the sun. He also found that there is a mathematical relationship between the period of a revolution of a planet and its distance from the sun. Galileo ...

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... named the planet after the Roman god, Jupiter (Zeus in Greek mythology) and the astronomical symbol (see Figure 1) is a representation of the lightning bolt carried by Zeus (Crystal). In 1610, Galileo Galilei made the first detailed observations of Jupiter (Harvey). He discovered Jupiter's four large moons (see Figure 2) Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto (aka the Galilean moons) and documented their motions ... discovered in the Solar System, after those of Saturn and Uranus. It was first observed in 1979 by the Voyager 1 space probe and thoroughly investigated in the 1990's by the Gal...

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... the most interesting in our Solar System. It is believed to be the god of agriculture in Roman mythology and its Greek name is Cronos. Saturn was first discovered by Galileo in 1610 by using one of the first telescopes. He was confused by its appearance as it looked like it had three parts, which the two extra parts, like three ... from the Sun. At the center of Saturn, the core is thought to have a temperature close to 15,000 C. The dramatic appearance of Saturn stems mainly from the spectacular rings. Galileo first discovery of the ring system in 1610 was described incorrectly because...

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... patron of the Roman State (1)." Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the sky and has been known since prehistoric times. More recently since the invention of the telescope by Galileo, have humans been able to study Jupiter with better vision. In 1664 one such observer noticed a mysterious occurrence on the planet, the Great Red Spot. "Although having been seen from ... 2. http://www.cpither.freeserve.co.uk 3. http://agham.asti.dost.gov.ph/1998/2nd/extras/joanne1.htm 4. http://heritage.stsci.edu/1999/29/table.html 5. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo/atjup/atmos/grs.html ...

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... beautiful sites know to the Ancients. All Gas Giant planets that we know of have rings, but the rings on Saturn are more elaborate than any of the other planets. Galileo was the first person to actually see Saturn on a telescope in 1610. At first the planet confused him. Christian Huygens was the first person that correctly inferred the geometry of ... ...

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... rings and its mythology. In Roman mythology Saturn is the God of agriculture. Saturn also is the root of the English word Saturday. Saturn has been known since prehistoric times. Galileo was the first to observe it with a telescope in 1610. He noted its odd appearance but was confused by it. Saturn is the sixth planet in the solar system, and ... ...

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... the laws of planetary motion. This was basically expanding on Copernicus theory, but with a little more detail. His research proved that the planets rotated around the sun on an angle. Galileo was known for the discovery of the stars that compose the Milky Way, but he also discovered the four moons of Jupiter, and its sunspots. Because of his discoveries, the ... ...

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... is roughly proportional to the distance from the Sun. . 3) the period squared is proportional to the length of the orbit with each planet obeying the same proportionality constant. 1564-1642 Galileo constructed the first telescopes and gathered evidence for the Copernican theory and Kepler's third law all of these discoveries conflicted with the Ptolemaic belief. 1642-1727 Issac Newton he was ... ...

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... . The wisest men and women can devote their lifetime to a subject and in their time be quoted as geniuses, yet as time progresses they may in turn be proven wrong. Galileo suggested that the sun was the center of the solar system and with this idea he was imprisoned. Later in history we find that this suggestion was true. Yet in ... ...

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