Galileo Galilei _ Wikipedia audio article.
Channel: B o n R i d e
Date: 2019-07-08

BORN
February 15, 1564
Pisa, Italy
DIEDJanuary 8, 1642 (aged 77)
Arcetri, Italy

NOTABLE WORKS
“The Sidereal Messenger”“Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems—Ptolemaic and Copernican”SUBJECTS OF STUDYMilky Way GalaxySungravityJupiterSolar SystemINVENTIONSGalilean telescopehydrostatic balancethermometercompassNOTABLE FAMILY MEMBERSFather Vincenzo Galilei

DID YOU KNOW?
Galileo constructed his famous telescope without having seen an example of the Dutch instruments.
Galileo designed a new form of hydrostatic balance, an instrument for weighing objects using air and water.


Galileo, in full Galileo Galilei, (born February 15, 1564, Pisa [Italy]—died January 8, 1642, Arcetri, near Florence), Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method. His formulation of (circular) inertia, the law of falling bodies, and parabolictrajectories marked the beginning of a fundamental change in the study of motion. His insistence that the book of nature was written in the language of mathematics changed natural philosophy from a verbal, qualitative account to a mathematical one in which experimentation became a recognized method for discovering the facts of nature. Finally, his discoveries with the telescoperevolutionized astronomy and paved the way for the acceptance of the Copernican heliocentric system, but his advocacy of that system eventually resulted in an Inquisitionprocess against him.