Galileo Galilei | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-08

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Galileo Galilei


00:02:09 1 Early life and family
00:03:48 1.1 Name
00:05:34 1.2 Children
00:06:43 2 Career as a scientist
00:09:19 2.1 Galileo, Kepler and theories of tides
00:11:24 2.2 Controversy over comets and iThe Assayer/i
00:14:14 2.3 Controversy over heliocentrism
00:25:17 3 Death
00:26:29 4 Scientific contributions
00:26:39 4.1 Scientific methods
00:29:23 4.2 Astronomy
00:30:33 4.2.1 Kepler's supernova
00:31:14 4.2.2 Jupiter's moons
00:33:14 4.2.3 Venus, Saturn, and Neptune
00:35:30 4.2.4 Sunspots
00:36:27 4.2.5 Moon
00:37:44 4.2.6 Milky Way and stars
00:40:02 4.3 Engineering
00:41:45 4.4 Physics
00:44:06 4.4.1 Falling bodies
00:46:51 4.5 Mathematics
00:50:07 5 Timeline
00:51:00 6 Legacy
00:59:36 6.1 Later Church reassessments
00:59:45 6.2 Impact on modern science
01:03:29 6.3 In artistic and popular media
01:05:14 7 Writings
01:07:04 7.1 Published written works
01:11:00 8 See also
01:12:57 9 References



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Galileo Galilei (Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛi]; 15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", and the "father of modern science".Galileo studied speed and velocity, gravity and free fall, the principle of relativity, inertia, projectile motion and also worked in applied science and technology, describing the properties of pendulums and "hydrostatic balances", inventing the thermoscope and various military compasses, and using the telescope for scientific observations of celestial objects. His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the observation of the four largest satellites of Jupiter, the observation of Saturn and the analysis of sunspots.
Galileo's championing of heliocentrism and Copernicanism was controversial during his lifetime, when most subscribed to either geocentrism or the Tychonic system. He met with opposition from astronomers, who doubted heliocentrism because of the absence of an observed stellar parallax. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture." Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo up until this point. He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", and forced to recant. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest. While under house arrest, he wrote Two New Sciences, in which he summarized work he had done some forty years earlier on the two sciences now called kinematics and strength of materials.