GALILEO GALILEI

INVENTIONS

• A better telescope

STUDY

• Mainly focused on physics
• He did some Astronomy

CONTRIBUTIONS

CONTRIBUTIONS

• Discovered the sun was the center of the universe
• Attempted to find the speed of light

CONTRIBUTIONS

• Created a higher tech telescope used to discover that the sun is the center of the universe.
• He discovered the moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn

CONTRIBUTIONS

• Discovered the concept of Inertia
• Inertia is what causes an object in motion to stay in motion.

CONTIBUTIONS

• Established that everything falls to the ground at the same rate without air resistance
• He found that anything fired from earth travels in a curved path like a parabla.

CHALLENGES

• His discoveries were opposite of what everyone's believed and for that he was disliked

CHALLENFES

• He was given the position of lecturer at Pisa University, but after two years he was removed because the professors disliked him.

CHALLENGES

• He eventually resigned as a professor because he no longer could work in peace.

CHALLENGES

• He had many disagreements with the Catholic Church. The first was he was trying to interpret the bible.

CHALLENGES

• The Roman Curia then confiscated his monumental work.

CHALLENGES

• The biggest run in with the Catholic Church was about the idea being the Sun was the center of the Universe.
• The Catholic Church then put him under house arrest for the rest of his life.