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Galileo Galilei and his discoveries

1. Group PowerPoint Presentation Galileo Galilei 22 nd April 2017

2. BORN : February 15 th ,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 u sed 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.

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