Galileo Galilei

• An astronomer of the renaissance time
• Born on February 15, 1564
• Lived in Pisa, Italy went to University of Pisa
• Died January 8, 1642 under house arrest

LAW OF PENDULUM

• He made the law to regulate clocks and became famous.
• When he tried to make the Pendulum Clock he died before it was done.

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

• They weren't said but church arrested him for being a "heretic"
• He was old and ill so he was put in house arrest
• Died on January 8, 1642
• He was a "heretic" because he showed people that the church doesn't have all answers
• And they would take info. from 1 man and had proof to show that it's real.

QUOTES

• "And yet it moves."
• "Where the senses fail, reason must step in."
• "The bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way it goes.
• "Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
• "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."

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS

• Discovered Neptune 2 centuries before it was officially known
• Discovered Earth revolves around the sun.
• Also had discover 4 of Jupiter's major moons
• Tried to make the Pendulum Clock when he was totally blind
• Died before the Pendulum Clock was done

GALILEO ESCAPEMENT

• In the last year of his life
• He was totally blind Galileo
• Designed an escapement mechanism
• He made a pendulum clock called
• "Galileo escape"

DANTES INFERNO

• Galileo made Dante's Inferno
• Returned to University of Pisa after leaving
• T'was about the 9 circles of Hell

HUMANISM

• His way of Humanism was he reinvented a better model of the telescope
• He showed them that dropping two items of two different weights they'll land at the same time
• He told people that the Earth revolved around the sun.
• He told everyone that all of this is real. He had proof to show that it worked.
• These are examples of Humanism because he cared for human interests and ideas.

MAP OF PISA

MODERN WORLD

• He reinvented the telescope that got improved further
• If he never reinvented the telescope, astronomers
• They wouldn't have telescopes today.
• That's he affected the modern world right now

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