2. BORN: February 15th,1564
Pisa, Duchy of Florence, Italy
Died: January 8th 1642 at the age of
77
Arcetri, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Italy
Galileo Galilei was an Italian polymath:
astronomer, physicist, engineer,
philosopher, and mathematician, he played
a major role in the scientific revolution of
the seventeenth century.
3. Discoveries
Galileo used inclined planes to prove that bodies do not fall with velocities
proportionate to their weight but proportionate to time.
He Disproved Aristotle’s view when he observed a supernova and showed that the new
star could not be close to the earth by parallax arguments.
He Found that projectiles follow a parabolic path
4. Although Galileo seriously
considered the priesthood as a
young man, his father insisted
that he be enrolled at the
University of Pisa for a medical
degree.
In 1589, he was appointed to
the chair of mathematics in Pisa
His interests included the study
of astrology, which at the time
was a discipline tied to the
studies of mathematics and
astronomy.
5. He did not invent the telescope, but he
is popularly thought to have by many.
Although he did adopt it early and
improve it.
Galileo introduced a geometric and
military compass in 1597.
6. Galileo discovered the phases of Venus he confirmed that the Sun
rotates and that the planets orbit around the Sun and not around
the Earth. Galileo's observations have confirmed Copernicus' model
of a heliocentric Solar System.
This stood the test of time but Galileo
thought that most planetary orbits are
circular in shape, when really they are
elliptical, as shown by Johannes Kepler.
7. Galileo Galilei was bold
and used experiments
as a way of research, he
also took a daring move
and presented his
treatise with
mathematical
demonstrations and did
not refer to
experimental results
like others did before
him.
8. Galileo was the first spacecraft
to observe an impact
into a planetary body,
when comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into
Jupiter.
He had a Spacecraft named after him.
The Galilean moons are the four largest
moons of Jupiter—Io, Europa, Ganymede,
and Calisto. Also named after him.
It was launched on October 18, 1989,
carried by Space Shuttle Atlantis, on
the STS-34 mission. Galileo arrived at
Jupiter on December 7, 1995, after
gravitational assist flybys of Venus and
Earth, and became the first spacecraft
to orbit Jupiter
9. Museo Galileo
Museo Galileo, the former
Istituto e Museo di Storia della
Scienza is located in Florence,
Italy,
Where Galileos telecope is held.As you can see the telescopes
named after him are far more
advanced than what the
astronomer himself used. I wonder
if he ever though hundreds of
years in the future he would have
had such an impact.
Galileo's pendulum, a
telescope and even a high
school in San Fransico is
named after the famous
Galileo Galilei.
10. FACT FILE : GALILEO GALILEI
From1589-1592, Galileo Galilei taught in the city
of Pisa. It is believed that the famous velocity
experiment was conducted here. He dropped
objects of varying weights off the leaning tower
of Pisa to order to disprove Aristotle’s theory that
lighter objects fall slower than heavier ones.
He was one of the first astronomer’s to observe
sunspots and his first astronomical observations
were published in 1610.
There was a ban on reprinting most of Galileo’s
works. It was over 60 years after the death of the
genius in 1718 that his works were published.
11. More than 350 years after the Roman Catholic
Church condemned Galileo, Pope John Paul II is
poised to rectify one of the Church's most infamous
wrongs -- the persecution of the Italian astronomer
and physicist for proving the Earth moves around
the Sun.
Article from a new paper in rome:
With a formal statement at the Pontifical
Academy of Sciences on Saturday,
Vatican officials said the Pope will
formally close a 13-year investigation
into the Church's condemnation of
Galileo in 1633. The condemnation,
which forced the astronomer and
physicist to recant his discoveries, led
to Galileo's house arrest for eight years
before his death in 1642 at the age of
77.
12. Contributor, Nola Taylor Redd Space.com. "Galileo Galilei: Biography, Inventions & Other
Facts." Space.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Apr. 2017.
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Stato, 1997. Print.
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Pergamon Press, 1966. Print.
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Editor's Notes
Galileo Galilei played a major role in the scientific revolution of the 17th century. He is famous for many things, most notably for his contributions to astronomy. He is remembered for the discovery of Jupiter's four moons, advancing telescope technology and declaring that the Earth revolves around the sun.
Galileo Disproved Aristotle's views and also discovered the moons of Jupiter. He had many discoveries and contributed a great amount to the scientific revolution. He is still known world wide today by just about every one, he has numerous things named after him including the moons of Jupiter, telescopes, and other things we will learn about in this presentation.
His father was a musician who wanted his son to study medicine as there was more money in medicine. In 1581, at the age of 17, he entered the University of Pisa to do as his father wished. He ended up studying mathematics he wanted a position on the mathematics faculty at a major university and went after that. He ended up with a mathematic position at the University. Could you Imagine if he had gone to become a doctor and never dabbled in mathematics or astronomy at all. All the discovery's he made would not of happened, or perhaps some one else would have.
Alongside the inventions Galileo's inventions included a magnification device that made telescopes twenty times more powerful. A one-horsepower pump to raise water along with an oar placement design for a ship's galley in which the oar acted as a lever against the water, which behaved as a fulcrum. Also a design for an accurate hydrostatic balance for weighing things in air and water. These are a few of the inventions that we know of that he made or contributed to.
Galileo was the first astronomer to use a telescope to study the sky. He observed several features that finally helped convince people that the Sun-centered solar system model known as the heliocentric model as proposed by Copernicus, was correct. Above is pictured the Copernicus model and also a photo of Johannes Kepler and the Elliptical orbit of a planet.
During the period of religious conservatism brought by the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, Galileo Galilei unveiled his new science of motion. Galileo used experiments as a research tool. Galileo nevertheless presented his treatise in the form of mathematical demonstrations without reference to experimental results. This alone was a bold and innovative step in terms of scientific method. Then.
Galileo was an American unmanned spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies. Named after the astronomer, of course it was named after him due to his research of these planets. So even decades and centuries after his death his name is still used in the scientific world. The Galilean moons are also named after him and they were discovered by Galileo Galilei around January 1610 and they were also the first group of objects found to orbit another planet.
Galileo’s telescope was the prototype of the modern day refractor telescope. Today its been over 400 years later and Galileo’s Telescope still survives under the constant care of the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza. The modern day galileo telescope is named after him along with the Galileo pendulum.
Believe it or not it is believed that the Catholic Church persecuted Galileo for abandoning the geocentric view of the solar system for the heliocentric view. Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church. April 12th of 1633 Galileo agreed not to teach the heresy anymore and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. It took more than 300 years for the Church to admit that Galileo was right and to clear his name of heresy.
More than 350 years after the Roman Catholic Church condemned Galileo, Pope John Paul II is poised to rectify one of the Church's most infamous wrongs the persecution of the Italian astronomer and physicist for proving the Earth moves around the Sun. They eventually cleared his name and said that they were wrong he was right