Observation Of Galileo

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Galileo was born on February 15th, 1564, in Pisa, Italy, belonging to the nobility. On February 19th of 1564, he was baptized in the baptistery of the Cathedral of Pisa, making him a Catholic. Galileo had quite an interest in physics; he began working on certain problems, following Archimedes rather than Aristotle. Galileo published his first scientific book titled, “The Little Balance” in 1586 that brought him recognition in the scholarly world. Galileo was appointed Chief Mathematician at the University of Pisa (without any teaching duties) and Mathematician and Philosopher to the Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1588 by the Medicis, offering bim a platform for sharing his theories. In ca. 1593, Galileo made his own version of a thermoscope. With some …show more content…

His telescopes were 20x and 30x power, versus the usual 3x power, this advancement raised the bar for future. Galileo helped advance the Copernican model, which stated that the sun was the center of the universe, not earth, with the discovery of his telescope (Hightower). “The Starry Messenger”, a short treatise published in 1609, contained observations of the moon’s surface and descriptions of new stars in the Milky Way (Galilei). With the help of his telescope, he discovered four new “stars” orbiting Jupiter in January of 1610, the four largest moons of Jupiter. The moons revolving around Jupiter was a huge step for Galileo made a huge step forward when he proved that the earth revolved around the sun by observing the moons revolving around Jupiter. In 1613, he published his observations of sunspots, this went against the Aristotelian doctrine that the sun was perfect. He published another book in 1612 titled, “Discourse on Bodies in Water’, which contained information on what made certain objects float in water. Finally, Galileo published his last book in Holland in 1638, “Two New Sciences”, summarizing all the discoveries on the science of

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