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Galileo Galilei: Modern Day Mathmetician

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Galileo Galilei was a philosopher, physicist, atronomer, and mathmetician. His work played a vital role in our understanding of the world as we know it today. Galileo was born in a time where science was not developed. Thanks to his contributions however, he left science as a thriving area of study. Galileo developed some of the founding principles of many different areas of science and philosophy. Because of this modern day mathmeticians, phycisists, astrononomers, and philosophers were able to build off of his work to create the comprehensive understanding of the world that we have today. Galileo was born in Pisa on february 15, 1564. He had noble heritage and because of this he was able to be privately educated and study mathematics. While he was in college he was educated by some of the best mathmeticians of the time and eventually he ended up as a math professor in Pisa. When Galileo moved to Padua he began to work on some of the ideas and inventions that would make him one of the greatest mathmetician of all time. One of the greatest improvements to an invention that he made in this time period involved the newly invented magnifying glass. This glass led him to create the telescope. This telescope was an extraordinary invention that combined all of the current knowledge on astronomy, physics, and …show more content…

Because of this many scientific theories were based on the churches understanding of the world. One of the reasons that Galileo became so famous was because he challenged the current geocentric view of the universe. Galileo began to publish papers that claimed the earth revolved around the sun in around 1610. He used his newly improved telescope to look at the moons in orbit which helped to confirm his theory. This discovery led Galileo to be tried by the Catholic church in his later years and sentanced to house

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