1. 1564-1642Who would set a limit to the mind of man?
Who would dare assert that we know all there
is to be known?
Galileo Galilei
2. Galileo Galilei was an
Italian astronomer,
physicist and engineer,
sometimes described
as a polymath. Galileo
has been called the
"father of observational
astronomy", the "father
of modern physics", the
"father of the scientific
method", and the
"father of modern
science".
3. Galileo was born in Pisa on 15 February 1564. He
became an accomplished lutenist himself and
would have learned early from his father a
scepticism for established authority, the value of
well-measured or quantified experimentation as
well as the results expected from a combination of
mathematics and experiment. When Galileo Galilei
was eight, his family moved to Florence, but he
was left with a family friend for two years. He was
educated in the Vallombrosa Abbey, about 30 km
southeast of Florence.
5. Galileo continued to receive
visitors until 1642, when, after
suffering fever and heart
palpitations, he died on 8 January
1642, aged 77. He was buried in a
small room next to the novices'
chapel at the end of a corridor from
the southern transept of the
basilica to the sacristy. He was
reburied in the main body of the
basilica in 1737 after a monument
had been erected there in his
honour during this move, three
fingers and a tooth were removed
from his remains. One of these
fingers, the middle finger from
Galileo's right hand, is currently on
exhibition at the Museo Galileo in
Florence, Italy.
6. Galileo was a brilliant man, he was the
father of pretty much everything (speaking
for science). In addition, he was a real
rebel for his time, he went against catholic
church.
