Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642), Italian scientist who proved that objects with
different masses fall at the same
velocity. He was one of the first persons to
use a telescope to examine objects in the sky. Authorities of the
Roman Catholic Church forced Galileo to renounce his belief in the
model of the solar system proposed by Nicollaus Copericus. Galileo had to assert that the earth
stands still, with the
sun revolving around it.
Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642), Italian scientist who proved that objects with
different masses fall at the same
velocity. He was one of the first persons to
use a telescope to examine objects in the sky.
Galileo Galilei (1564@1642), Italian scientist who was one of the first persons to
use a telescope to examine objects in the sky. It's very interesting because it takes it up from the days of Galileo.
- Study and Intention (18 Aug. 66) Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian scientist and astronomer, born in Pisa,
Italy, who was a pioneer of modern
physics (the
science that deals with
matter,
energy,
motion and
force) and the first to
use a telescope to
study the
stars and planets. His observations and
findings validated an earlier
formulated theory by the scientist
Copernicus, which stated that the Earth, as well as the other planets, rotated around the
sun and that the Earth is not the center of the
universe. So I looked into this
chapter on binoculars, and it's just
page after
page after
page about binoculars. It's very interesting because it takes it up from the days of Galileo.
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian
physicist, scientist and astronomer. Observing
stars and planets with telescopes of his own construction, Galileo's
findings agreed with an earlier
theory that the
sun is the center of the solar system and the earth itself is rotating. The
Catholic Church condemned this
theory as
heresy (as the
Bible was seen as supporting the view of a stationary earth) and warned Galileo not to
advocate it. However, in 1632, he published a book which discussed the condemned
theory and was
arrested and forced to renounce his
findings before a
vast assembly. (
Legend has it that after this
public declaration, Galileo
stamped on the
ground and said "Yet it moves!") He was sentenced to
life imprisonment; however, this was
mitigated to strict seclusion in his villa near Florence,
Italy, where he spent his remaining years.