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.

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time period was the naming of the cycloid curve in 1599. In 1639, Galileo wrote to

appointed professor of mathematics at Padua (the university of the Republic of Venice).

GALILEO, The University of Chicago Press, pp. 339 3. Hitzeroth, Deborah, Sharon

adapted a telescope for the viewing of extremely small objects. This microscope, which he

mathematical skills to aid in proving Copernican theories. Between 1619 and 1624 Galileo

published in Leyden in 1638. In this book, Galileo presented the true laws of accelerated

fallen from a much greater height and at virtually the same time as the lighter hailstones in

Galileo Galilei was born in 1564 in Pisa, Italy to Vincenzo Galilei, a musician, and Giulia

generating circle. After his failure at trying to find a mathematical method of finding the

the Sun and that the heavens were constantly changing and evolving. Since Galilei's vision

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