2nd+Period+-+Galileo+Galilei

=2nd Period - Galileo Galilei= By:Kirby D.



Date of birth:Feb.15,1564

Location of birth:In Pisa

Parents’ names:Vincenzo Galilei,Guilia Ammannati

Family background:Galileo had 6 or 7 siblings in his family.Galileo's family moved to Florence.Galileo had been a founder of modern experimental science.Galileo didn't invent the telescope.Galileo lived in Pisa at first when he was just a little boy.Galileo kept his observations in a little book called the starry messenger.

Date of death:Jan.8,1642

Location of death/grave:In Arcetri,Italy

Education:Galileo began his formal education by going to school.Galileo's father decided that he should become a medical doctor.Galileo studied mathematics and physics.Galileo loved to study the stars with a telescope.Galileo spent 4 years as a tutor in mathematics.Galileo also researched motion.Galileo went to the university of Florence.Galileo also went to the university of Pisa.Galileo was never interested in being a doctor.

Career:Galileo had a career as a italian astronomer.Galileo studied the sun moon's star's comet's and even planets.Galileo studied outer space night after night. Galileo even studied the sun's sunspots.Galileo studied the sun's solar flares.Galileo found out that the sun was the center of the solar system.

Legacy:Galileo was an italian physicist and astronomer.Galileo was greatly remembered for some very importent contributions to astronomy and physics.Galileo made a telescope that was larger and more powerful then other telescopes.Galileo was a very famous scientist.People read Galileo's work almost every day in the world.Galileo did a bunch of studying in the whole world.Galileo will always be a great scientist in the worlds history.Galileo was a person that studied mars with a telescope.

Additional/Interesting information:Galileo found out that four moons revolve around Jupiter.Galileo lived the life of a gentalman.Galileo found out that a telescope can show more then just stars.Galileo career took a dramatic turn.Galileo taugth himself the art of lens grinding.Galileo quickly produced a little book.Galileo discovered that Venus goes throught lots and lots of phases just as the moon does.Galileo found out that the moon isn't smooth.

Sources Cited (Galileo Galilei – 2nd Period)

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