Galileo Galilei

significant facts about Galileo

• HE is often credited for creating the telescope.
• Galileo is most known for defending the idea several years after Kepler had already calculated the path of planets, and but Galileo was put under house arrest at the end of his lifetime
• he also was credited with discovering the first four moons of Jupiter

background of galileo

• Galileo was born on February 15, 1564, Pisa Italy—died January 8, 1642
• the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei, a musician and scholar

how did he impact the world today

• he helped prove that the earth rotated around the sun
• he discovered many moons , spots on the sun , and mountains on the moon

questions

• how did they see so far yet with a telescope that was newly made
• how did newton discover gravity.
• how would people get their calculations on how far the moon or the sun were.