Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Rauno Tapner
10M
2017
Basic information
Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy, on 15 February 1564.
He was an Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher,
mathematician
He has been called the: father of observational astronomy
father of modern physics
father of scientific method
father of science
Education
At the age of 4, Galileo told his father that he wanted to be a monk.
This was not exactly what father had in mind, so Galileo withdrew from the
monastery.
In 1581, at the age of 17, he gave into his father´s wishes entered the University
of Pisa to study medicine, as his father wished.
By 1585 he gave up his courses in medicine and left without completing a degree
to become a mathematics teacher.
What he did?
Galileo discovered how the earth moves.
Galileo also worked in applied science and technology, inv...
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