Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei was born in 1564 in the city of Pisa, Italy. He was a physicist and astronomer. He studied at the University of Pisa but was unable to complete college due to financial problems. At the University, Galileo studied medicine like his father wanted him to. But Galileos true passion was to become a physicist and learn how the world works. When he was young he wrote two treatises, the first was called the La bilancetta which was about balance. The other book was about the center of gravity on certain solids. While Galileo was studying with Nicolò Tartaglia, he learned all about what Archimedes and what he thought about geometry. Galileo also learned learned the physics of Aristotle who believed that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects. After his father had died in 1591, he usually left town to go to the harbor where ships were docked and thought of ways to stop using oars to steer the boat called the water pivot, he also thought up a new military compass which was very popular during his time. Galileo also was still studying mathematics and physics which helped him get a teaching job at the university of Pisa in 1589. In later years at the University he came to conclusion that he was a copernican and thought of a formula for free fall which was s=1/2(gt2), where s is distance, t is time, and g is the acceleration due to gravity at sea level. IN 1606 Galileo wrote the book The Operations of the Geometrical and Military Compass, which was Galileo defending Copernicanism. later, he heard of people combining lenses to create a telescope. It was said that Galileo could see the mountains on the moon and the moons revolving around Jupiter. The venetian senate was so surprised that they gave Galileo a lifelong contract with the university of Padua. When Galileo wanted to pursue astronomy he left the university and his family for Florence. This move of his was thought of horribly because of his selfishness towards others, but in Florence his findings about earth put him in some trouble with the church; Because many people started to question his views, he had sent essays in the form of letters to Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, which spread widely to Cardinal Robert Bellarmine who said "hold, teach and defend in any manner whatsoever, in words or in print". When Galileo went to the church to show evidence that Copernicus was right, the church said that they will never believe in his cause. In 1633 a roman formal institution that was set up by the catholic church accused of heresy. The cardinal warned him before about defending copernicanism but Galileo did not listen. When in jail he wrote Dialogue which took him six years to write. The Dialogue Is split into four days or sections. The 1st day says that the universe is perfect and where each planet is located. The 2nd talks about the advantages of earth rotating on an axis and what happens. The 3rd day talks about how the sun is the center of the universe and not the earth. The 4th day was about motion and inertia. Galileo was sent back to the roman Inquisition after he published this. This time he was sent to be under house arrest at the Florentines ambassadors house until the end of the sentencing. When he was set free he continued to support copernicanism and wrote another book this time it was called Two New Sciences, which was written exactly like Dialogue but was written about the laws of physics on earth and not the constellations. This was his last writing and he died in 1642.
Galileo Galilei is the most influential people of ancient science and set our base groundwork for modern science today. There is no reason why he should not have the title of the Father of Modern Science. He never gave up and no matter how many times he was sent to jail or put under house arrest he kept on writing about the copernistic views, which in the end turned out to be correct. His theories may have been very unorthodox but they shaped our modern world today.
Galileo Galilei is the most influential people of ancient science and set our base groundwork for modern science today. There is no reason why he should not have the title of the Father of Modern Science. He never gave up and no matter how many times he was sent to jail or put under house arrest he kept on writing about the copernistic views, which in the end turned out to be correct. His theories may have been very unorthodox but they shaped our modern world today.