GALILEO

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• Full Name; Galileo Galilei.
• Nickname; "The Father of Modern Science."
• Birth Date; February 15, 1564.
• Death Date; January 8, 1642.
• Education; Monastery School at Vallombrosa.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS

• The Thermometer: Invented the first thermometer in 1606.
• Jupiter Satellites: Galileo discovered the four largest satellites.
• The moon: discovered the moon had craters, mountains and valleys.
• Sunspots: He found sunspots that drifted from one side of the
• Sun's disc to the other.

BELIEFS

• What Galileo believed about the positioning of the planets caused heresy.
• The church said he would have to admit he was wrong even though Galileo
• knew he was right. Instead of killing him, they put him in house arrest for
• the rest of his life. He was a humanist because he cared about what was on
• on earth, as much as religion.