Galileo Honor

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Honor means to feel esteem or respect. Honor to me means to help and care for others, instead of yourself being your first priority. Galileo is considered to be honorable because he was able to overcome some of the struggles in his life. In the summer of 1851, he was enrolled in the University of Pisa to carry out a degree in medicine. In 1585, he was forced to leave the University of Pisa because of the lack of funds. He unfortunately, was not able to complete his degree, but that did not prohibit his fascinations. He then published an essay over the hydrostatic balance one year later. In 1589, he was awarded a position as lecturer at the University of Pisa after he published his paper over the center of gravity of solids. It was not until …show more content…

In my opinion, this is very honorable. The telescope today has helped countless scientists with their discoveries. Galileo also made discoveries in 1610 including that the moon is an irregular, rough body, which is not smooth as scientists thought, that the Milky Way is composed of many stars, on January 7th he discovered that Jupiter has many small satellites that he named, "Sidera Medicea," after his favorite pupil, and he made observations about Saturn, sunspots, and the phases of Venus. He left his position at Padua and he became the first philosopher and mathematician to the grand duke of Tuscany. The following year, he visited Rome to demonstrate the …show more content…

Without his theories, we would never have known much about the not just Earth, but the surrounding planets as well. It was not until 1623 that Galileo made his famous quote, "The Book of Nature is written with Mathematical characters". This quote did however put him on the pope’s ‘bad side’. It was not until June 22, 1632, after he had already published his work, and the pope began to put him on one trial after another. This broke Galileo’s world to pieces. Not only was he put on trial at the Inquisition headquarters in Rome, but all the power from the church poured down on the scientist as well. He was under threat of torture, imprisonment, and even burning at the stake. His lifetime of brilliant time and labor was in the balance. Because he renounced, at least verbally, that he had "pitiable state of bodily indisposition," all of the threats regarding the culminating of his life did remain just threats. He had lost his vision in 1638, and eventually died on January 8, 1642(GALILEO

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