GALILEO GALILEI

GALILEO GALILEI

• Born, lived and worked in Pisa, Italy.
• Galileo was a very smart person capable of making many inventions like the telescope but to pay for living accommodations he became a professor at the university of Pisa.
• He is most know for being a very smart scientist, inventor and a great professor.

GALILEO'S MAJOR ACHIVEMENT: THE TELESCOPE

• Not his first or only invention
• Europe made the first telescope (magnified 3x)
• Galileo,s magnified 20x
• The telescope allowed him to see many new things in space such as the surface of the moon, moons of Jupiter, sunspots and more.
• Galileo never moved from Pisa, Italy and he had a job at the university so he had a place to do his research then get to making it right away.

WHY IS THE TELESCOPE AN EXAMPLE OF HUMANISIM

• This is a major example of humanism because Galileo was the first person to go against the church's beliefs in saying there isn't a heaven above us.
• Even when the church didn't want him to make his findings know, with risk of major discipline, he made a book about them.
• He eventually was punished by the church and put under house arrest. He could not have visitors or publish anymore books, he ignored both.

GALILEO: QOUTE OF HUMANISM

• "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
• This is an example of humanism because the church told him not to release his findings and he did anyway and I feel this quote is almost a response to what the church told him to do.

MODERN DAYS: THE TELESCOPE

• The telescope has been modified and made better so we can observe even more things in space further pushing science and our understanding of our universe thanks to Galileo.

SOURCES

• biography.com
• sau17.libguides.com
• atnf.csiro.au
• google quotes