GALILEO GALILIE

BORN

GALILEO WANTED TO BE A MONK

• Galileo wanted to be a monk but his father chose to enroll him at the university of Pisa at the age of 17.
• By 1584 he leaves university without a degree and works as a tutor.
• But he goes back 4 years later and is appointed a professor at the university.
• But his father dies in 1591 and he leaves the university to work as a professor at the university of Padua.

APPOINTED PROFESSOR

• He stays at the university for 18 years until he is appointed a lifetime job as a professor
• In those 18 years he invents an early thermometer,His first child, Virgina, is born, followed by
• his second daughter Livia, measures supernova position indicating no parallax for the new star,
• Then his first son, Vincenzo, is born in 1606 when Galileo is 42. In 1609 he invents and
• improves upon a telescope.

BUSTED

• In 1633 Galileo was placed under house arrest after being warned by the Catholic Church.
• He was in trouble because he said that the earth wasn't the center of the universe and
• For heresy.
• His quote was "intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
• Galileo believed that religion was based to much on structure and filled with corruption that went against all their teachings.

QUOTES

• "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with sense, reason and
• intellect has intended us to forgo their use." Think that means that if discover something that is true
• you shouldn't be forced to say it's not true because it goes against what the bible says.

DIED