Galilleo
Galileo Galilei was an astronomer and mathematician, he was, a man ahead of his time. Galileo discovered the law of uniformly accelerated motion towards the Earth, the parabolic path of projectiles, and the law that all bodies have weight. Among his other accomplishments was the improvement of the refracting telescope in 1610 and his advocacy of the Copernican theory which brought him into a conflict of ideas and truths between himself and the Inquisition. He was condemned by the church whose theories threatened everything that was taught by the priesthood as the holy truth and he was eventually broken by the Inquisition. Before being ultimately defeated by the church, however, Galileo made many contributions to the world of physics. His scientific discoveries and endeavors were only a portion of his contributions to the scientific community. His brilliance brought about a new era in scientific advancement and his defeat at the hands of the church put a stop to the scientific revolution which he had started. 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. He was arguably one of the brightest men who ever li
Biblography 1. Drake, Stillman - 1990, GALILEO: PIONEER SCIENTIST, The University of Chicago Press, pp. 261 2. De Santillana, Giorgio - 1955, THE CRIME OF GALILEO, The University of Chicago Press, pp. 339 3. Hitzeroth, Deborah, Sharon Heerboth - 1961, THE IMPORTANCE OF GALILEO GALILEI, Lucent Books, pp. 95 4. Shapere, Dudley - 1974, GALILEO A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY, The University of Chicago Press, pp. 161 ved. Galileo discovered and enhanced many scientific discoveries of his time period and was highly regarded as a Mathematician and Natural Philosopher. Galileo was persecuted for his views on Earth's relationship with the rest of the heavens since he believed that the Earth revolved around the Sun and that the heavens were constantly changing and evolving. Since Galilei's vision of a metamorphosing universe came in direct conflict with the views of Aristotle, views held by and supported by the church, Galileo was eventually called before the Inquisition and forced to recant his views. 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. Galileo studied medicine at the university of Pisa from 1581 to 1585, but his real interests were in mathematics and natural philosophy and Galileo left the university in 1585 without a degree. It was during this time frame that Galileo began to doubt conventional science, since much of what he was being taught at that time as scientific fact was conflicting with the evidence which he saw in his hands-on medical observations. Following his period as a student, Galileo tried his hand at teaching. Galileo began privately teaching in Florence and he returned to the university of Pisa to teach mathematics in 1589. Galileo taught at the university of Pisa until 1592 when he was appointed professor of mathematics at Padua (the university of the Republic of Venice). Galileo's duties as a professor of mathematics at Padua were to teach Euclidean geometry and standard (geocentric) astronomy to medical students. The medical students at that time were expected to know some astronomy in order to make use of astrology in their medical practices. In Padua, he continued his physics research in the area of mechanics and astronomy. In the area of mechanics is where Galileo's most famous observations were exhibited. The traditional theory accepted by nearly everyone at that time was Aristotle's theory that heavier objects, when dropped from the same height as lighter ones, will fall at a faster rate. In opposition to this notion, Galileo stated that with the removal of outside influences such as wind resistance, both objects will fall simultaneously at virtually the same speed. Although a very popular story of Galileo states that he attempted to prove this theory by dropping different weights from the campanile (
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