4th+Period+-+Galileo+Galilei

=4th Period - Galileo Galilei= By: Malique F

Date of birth: February 15, 1564

Location of birth: Pisa, Italy

Parents’ names: Vincenzio Galilei

Family background: His father sold cloth, play music, and was a mathematician. He was the oldest son of Vincenzio Galilei. He made donation to music. They move to Florence in 1570.

Date of death: January 8,1642

Location of death/grave:Santa Croce Church

Education: Galileo was taught at home by his father, until he was 11, then he was sent to the Benedictine Monastery of Santa Maria di Vallombrosa to study Latin, Greek, religion, and music. He study mathematician like his father, and physics. In 1581 he entered the University of Pisa. He left the university to study on his own. In 1592 he became a Professor of mathematician. He was a tutor in mathematics.

Career: Galileo published a book called THE STARRY MESSENGER,he got the imformation from looking through his telescopeand wrote it down everything he observed.He made maps of heavens and dedicated the four newly discovered stars of Jupiter to Cosimo II, the Duke of Tuscany. He was name Chief Philosopher ad mathematician to the M edici court.

Legacy: Galileo was famous for writen book. He had got cought and was sent to jeil and stade in there for life. he got caught for lying. He discovered the law of fall objects. there were a spacecraft name aften him that was sent in to space on October 18 1989.

Additional/Interesting information: He invented the hydrostatic balance the first practical thermometer, a compound microscope, and the first astronomical telescope. His book was translated into many Languages including Chinese. He got in trouble by going a against the Church and that the Earth was not in the center of the Universe. He was sentnced to spend the rest of his life locked in his house under guard. He went blind and the church that had punished him they pardoned him and said he was right.

Sources Cited (Galileo Galilei – 4th Period)

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