2. EARLY LIFE
He was born on Feb.15 1564.
In the early 1570’s his family moved to Florence, Italy.
His father wanted him to be a doctor.
His father sent him to the university of Pisa in 1582.
For four years he studied medicine and philosophy of Aristotle.
3. EARLY SCIENTIFIC
INTERESTS
He discovered he had a talent for mathematics.
In 1585 he left the university of Pisa.
He spent the next four years as a math tutor.
He began to question Aristotelian philosophy and scientific
thought.
He gained public notice with his new hydrostatic balance.
4. MATURE SCIENTIFIC
CAREER
In 1609 in Padua he built his first telescope.
He saw evidence that many of Aristotle’s and Ptolemy’s claims
about the heavens were false.
His first discovery was that the moon was not smooth.
In 1610, Cosimo II de’ Medici named Galileo his chief
mathematician and philosopher.
5. GALILEO'S SCIENTIFIC
CONTRIBUTION
He made many important scientific contributions to astronomy.
Some historians disagreed about Galileo’s role as a founder of
modern experimental science.
He opened the way for the development of modern mathematics.
Some people doubted experiments in Galileo’s scientific
development.
6. DEATH
Galileo died on January 8,1642, at the age of 77.
He died because of fever and heart palpitations.
He was buried in a small room next to the novices chapel.
He was re-buried in the main body of the Basilica in 1737.
During the move three fingers and one tooth were removed from
his body.
8. QUOTES FROM GALILEO
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the
point is to discover them.”
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover
it in himself.”
“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.”
