Galileo Galilei Research Paper

Galileo Galilei was born on February 15 1565, in Pisa in the Dutch of Florence Italy. He was a father to three children out of wedlock with Marina Gamba. They had two daughters and one son. Galileo went to the university in 1583 to study medicine. Later on he became fascinated with many subjects, mathematics and physics. Due to financial problems Galileo left the university in 1585 before he got his degree. He had continued to study mathematics during this time he began his two-decade study on objects in motion and published The Little Balance. It describes the hydrostatic principles of weighing small quantities. He got a teaching post at the University of Pisa in 1589. In 1592 Galileo’s contact with the University Pisa was not renewed but

Galileo was given a salary to manufacture many of them. Venetian merchants were the ones who gave galileo the salary and saw the value of the telescope. In 1609 he turned his telescope to the sky. On March 1610 he published booklet, The Starry Messenger. The booklet revealed his discoveries about the moon, the moon was not flat and smooth, but that it was sphere with mountains and craters. He also found out that Venus had phases like the moon and that it rotated around the sun and he discovered that jupiter had revolving moons which didn't revolve around Earth. In 1612 he published his Discourse on bodies of Water. It was explaining why objects float in water. In 1632 Galileo published the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems it talked about three people: one who supports Copernicus’ heliocentric theory of the universe, one who argues against it, one who is impartial. During September 1632 to July 1633 Galileo was treated with respect and was never imprisoned. Galileo was threatened with torture. He finally admitted that he had supported Copernican theory. He was convicted of heresy and spend the the rest of his years under house arrest. In 1635 copies of the Dialogue were published in