Galileo Galilei, The father to modern science, has unfortunately passed. Born February 15 1564 in Pisa Italy. The greatest Scientist of the century was so soon taken from us on January 8, 1642. He was the first of six children, born to Vicenzo Galilei and Giula Ammannati. Among being the perfect child with a hard work ethic and a desire to learn, he eventually went to University. Though he didn’t complete his degree, it didn’t matter. He improved the telescope, forever revolutionizing the way we see the world for centuries. With him and a small team of people, they created a telescope with 3x magnification, later improving again to 30x. Adding onto his discovery of the new telescope, he discovered Jupiter’s moons, and published a book about it which was …show more content…
But, no one’s perfect. Our beloved Father of Science also discovered the rings of Saturn and that Venus had phases. Most unlike previously thought. Along with this amazing accomplishment, he also discovered many new stars, also finding out that the Milky Way is composed of stars. Although being put on house arrest for the last 8 or so years of his life for the whole “Church scandal” and “Almost collapsing the entire church system across Europe” he was still the amazing scientist we all know and love. Or loved. Galileo paved the way to the father or “daddy of physics to some” (Isaac Newton) to make the discoveries he did. Giving him substantial work to base is theories off of and for him to eventually make the ground breaking discoveries as he did. Many people doubted Galileo and his findings, but they were soon to recollect on their previous thoughts on his concepts and theories, which are widely accepted in about 400 or so years. Though, no one was perfect, Galileo refused Kepler’s theory on how the moon controlled the tides and believed it was because of the nature of Earth’s