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Feb 15, 1564
galileo is born
galileo was born in pisa italy and to vecenzo who was a muscian at the time. they then moved to Florence,Italy. -
Period: Feb 15, 1564 to
early childhood
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Jan 1, 1581
galileo enters collage
Galileo enters the University of Pisa to study medicine. As the story goes, Galileo was in the cathedral at Vallombrosa when he observed a lamp hanging from the ceiling swaying with perfect rhythm. He was fascinated that the lamp took the same amount of time to swing no matter how large the range of swing. He later would apply his theories of pendulums to clocks. -
galileo ends collage
Galileo, not completing his degree, is forced to leave the University because of lack of funds. He returns to Pisa -
writes an essay on gravity
He publishes an essay on the hydrostatic balance, a device to measure the mass of objects. -
promotion
He publishes a paper on the center of gravity in solids and is awarded a position as lecturer at the University of Pisa -
galileo works on new telescope
Galileo learns of the recent invention, the telescope. He returned to Padua and is able to improve the magnification of the telescope he bought to 32 powers. -
recording obeservations and more promotions
Galileo makes many different observations about the solar system, using his new telescope.
The moon is an irregular, rough body, not smooth as scientists thought.
The Milky Way is composed of many stars.
Jupiter has many small satellites that he named, "Sidera Medicea," after his favorite pupil.
He made observations about Saturn, sunspots, and the phases of Venus.
He publishes the results in the 1610 book, "Sidereus Nuncius." ("The Starry Messenger")
He leaves his position at Padua to becom -
He visits Rome to demonstrate the telescope
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looking good for galileo
After being so warmly accepted at Rome, Galileo writes three letters to formally take his position on the heliocentric theory of the universe. His main reason for believing Kepler and Copernicus were his observations of sunspots moving around the sun -
warm welcome
After being so warmly accepted at Rome, Galileo writes three letters to formally take his position on the heliocentric theory of the universe. His main reason for believing Kepler and Copernicus were his observations of sunspots moving around the sun. -
ruined
The Catholic Church formally declares the writings of Galileo banned, and warns Galileo not to "hold or defend his doctrines." -
big book publishing
Galileo publishes his great work, Dialogo sopra I due massimi sistemi del mondo, tolemaico e copernicano (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems--Ptolemaic and Copernican) IN compliance with the Pope, the work is set as a conversation between two men discussing the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems. -
long travel
Galileo is eventually placed on trial and at his old age, is forced to make the journey to Rome. He is placed under house arrest for eight years until his death. -
galileos life goes downhill
Simply put, all heck brakes loose in Galileo's world. The Pope, infuriated at the content of "Dialogo," places him on trial for one thing after another. -
don't stop belivin
Despite his house arrest Galileo publishes Discorsi e dimostrazioni mathematiche intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alla meccanica (Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences, a work about the principles of mechanics. -
he makes another important discoverie
Galileo makes the discovery, months before he went completely blind, that the moon makes monthly wobbles on its axis, called liberations. -
death
Galileo Galilei dies from a long illness. -
efects on society at the time
at the time society was not just shown that the church was wrong but proven to be wrong. After that people were more cofident in questioning the church -
what this means today
today although we might not think much of it most of our anstronomical dicoveries are based on men like galileo and Nickolas copernicus so theese men afect todays society and world today very much in a poesitive way. in conclusion these people are very key to society today. without them it just whouldn't be the same -
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impacts on the world past and present
