GALILEO

GALILEO AS A CHILD

• Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564.
• He was the oldest of seven children.
• His father was a wool trader who wanted Galileo to study medicine.
• Was sent to work in a Jesuit monastery at age 11.
• He became a monk then in 1581 went to the University of Pisa to study medicine.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Created the telescope
• Studied astronomy
• Believed in the heliocentric theory and proved it.
• Discovered how to regulate clocks.
• He was a mathematician, astronomer, and musician.

HELIOCENTRIC

• Galileo believed and supported the heliocentric theory.
• Galileo could prove that the heliocentric theory was correct unlike the geocentric theory.
• Galileo told the church that they were wrong and he had to recant his theory or be burned alive.
• The heliocentric theory is the belief that the sun is the center of the galaxy.

COPERNICUS

GALILEO

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SOURCES PAGE

• http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventors/a/Galileo_Galilei.htm
• http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/NatSci102/lectures/galileo.htm