PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Galileo was born in February, 1564. He died in 1642.
In 1581 he enrolled into the University of Pisa to study medicine.
Galileo was also prolific inventor, even though it was for mostly financial reasons.
While on vacation in Venice, Galileo heard a rumor about a Dutch spectacle maker Hans Lippershey, who invented an object that made whatever a person was looking at through it appear to be closer.