Galileo Galilei was born to Vincenzio Galilei and Giulia Ammannati on February 15, 1564 in the town of Pisa in Italy. He was the oldest of seven children about most of whom all record is lost. His first teacher was a man by the name of Jacopo Borghini. Around 1575 he and his family moved to Florence. After they settled there he began to attend school at the monastery of Santa Maria in Vallombrosa. After about six years of study there he entered the order although his father was against it. His father promptly attempted to enroll him in the University of Pisa but failed. Galileo then returned to the monastery and continued to study there until 1581 when he was successfully enrolled in the University of Pisa. He entered the school as a medical student. His formal education in astronomy and physics were the lectures of Aristotelian philosophers. His interest in medicine though was very slim and he eventually began to receive instruction in mathematics from outside of his school by a man named Ostilio Ricci who was the mathematician of the Tuscan Court and a friend of his fathers. In 1585, four years after he had entered the university, he left, having never earned a degree.
Galileo has contributed a great deal to modern science and thought. In the field of mechanics his ideas still remain fundamental. He first studied the decent of falling objects along plains of varying inclinations. From this study he created the law that governed the amount of distance traveled and the time spent in free fall. This law, the law of falling bodies, states that: space traversed by a body falling along an incline plane is directly proportional to the square of the time of fall. He also studied the movement of pendulums.
One of Galileo's greatest accomplishments was the creation of the telescope. He built his first telescope in the early 1600's out of ebony and ivory and a 30mm lens. Using this telescope he was able to discover the moons of Jupiter.
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The trial of Galileo Galilei (1633) brought a destructive impact on the world of science and humanism when it was forced to encounter scholasticism and absolutism that held power in the Catholic Church. ... In consequence, Galileo was found guilty and was sentenced to formal imprisonment. He was commuted to house arrest the following day in which he would spend the rest of his life in his villa at Arcetri near Florence. ... " Some of these views were those of the philosopher Paul Feyerabend, whom he quoted as saying "The Church at the time of Galileo kept much more closely to reason than ...
This report is about the life and discoveries of Galileo Galilei. Galileo was born is Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564. ... Galileo began his career at the University of Pisa in 1584. ... Galileo did not truly want to become a doctor, but rather it was his father, Vincenzio Galilei who insisted on the idea. ... Galileo died in Arcetri on January 8, 1642. ...
Many people take the night sky for granted; one man who did not was Galileo Galilei: a man guilty of doing all of the above. ... Galileo Galilei was born in 1564, in Pisa, Italy. His parents were Vincenzo Galilei and Guilia Ammannati. ... Galileo soon embraced the life of the Camaldolese monk with affection. ... The Church took pity on him when sentencing, and instead of life in prison, they sentenced him to house arrest. ...
The book Galileo's Daughter, by Dava Sobel, brings the famous scientist Galileo to life, while also showing a perspective on his trial for heresy, and his relationship with his daughter Maria Celeste. Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa Italy, in the same year as Shakespeare, 1564. ... Giulia Galilei was his mother. He got his name from Galileo Buonaiuti (a physician in the family) after whom the family had taken the last name Galilei. ... It is easy to see from reading her letters that she was the most important person in Galileo's life. ...
Galileo Galilei was an astronomer and mathematician, he was, a man ahead of his time. ... Galileo Galilei was a great scientist and pioneer in the fields of mechanics, astronomy, thermometry, and magnetism, although mechanics and astronomy were his main passions. ... Nonetheless, Galileo Galilei made significant contributions to the scientific community and he is remembered as a great scientist and innovator. Galileo Galilei was born in 1564 in Pisa, Italy to Vincenzo Galilei, a musician, and Giulia Ammannati. ... Although he was lead to believe that this act would cause the Inquisition...
Among these people was Galileo Galilei. ... He invented the microscope," (Galileo Galilei, http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/museo/b/egalilg.html). ... "After scrutinizing Earth's moon and then the moons of Jupiter, he confidently began to denounce the findings of Aristotle and Ptolemy and declared, through lectures and his writings, that Copernicus was right," (Life and Times of Galileo Galilei, http://www.devine-ent.com/shows/inventors/galileo-bio.shtml). ... "Galileo Galilei is often called "the first scientist"," (Galileo Galilei: Super Scientist in History http://www.llnl.gov/llnl06news...
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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian physicist and astronomer. ... In history, Galileo also stands as a symbol in the battle for freedom of inquiry. In 1609 Galileo completed his telescope of 20 times magnification, with which he discovered mountains and craters on the moon. ... This publishing bought him unwanted attention from the powerful church and they sentenced him to life imprisonment in his own home for defying the churches orders to stop investigating space. He spent the last 4 years of his life blind as a result of staring at the sun directly. ...
