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Title: galileo galilei


1
GalileoGalilei
  • (1564-1642)

Here, a simple tube and two lenses had made a
rod for beating the Aristotelian Ronan
2
Life - Childhood
  • Born in Pisa, Italy, Feb. 15, 1564
  • Father- Vincenzo Galilei
  • Musician and Mathematician
  • Formal Education
  • Monastery Santa Maria di Vallombrosa
  • Interests
  • Music, mathematics, physics, philosophy
  • Medical
  • University of Pisa (1581)

3
Life - Adulthood
  • 1585 - Florence without a degree
  • Math Professor
  • University of Pisa (25 years old)
  • University of Padua
  • 1604 - Studied Astronomy
  • Celestial observations
  • 1609(33) - Galileos trial
  • 1642 - Galileos death

4
Accomplishments in Terrestial Physics
  • Founder of Modern Experimental Science
  • Mechanical
  • Isochronous motion of pendulum
  • Pendulum Clock
  • Military Compass
  • Parabolic motion of a projectile
  • Strength of materials

5
Accomplishments in Terrestial Physics
  • Inertia
  • Laid Foundation for Newtons Law of Motion
  • Law of Falling Bodies
  • Dynamics
  • Studied the phenomenon of heat
  • Thermometer

6
Accomplishments in the Field of Astronomy
  • Telescope Improvements
  • Upright-image telescope
  • Greatly improved the lenses for better views
    (better focus)
  • Eliminated chromatic aberration problem
  • First thirty-times magnification telescopes

7
Astronomical Observations
  • Craters mountains on the moon
  • Four satellites of Jupiter
  • Phases of Venus
  • Rings of Saturn
  • Individual faint stars of Milky Way

8
Astronomical Conclusions
  • Moon Celestial bodies
  • Not perfect, smooth bodies
  • Subjected to change and decay
  • Copernican Theory
  • Mutable, Heliocentric Universe
  • Theory of Tides

9
Books
  • Starry Messenger(1609)
  • His celestial observations
  • The Assayer(1623)
  • Mechanics and comets
  • Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World
    Systems(1632)
  • Discourses on Two New Sciences(1638)

10
Galileos Famous Trial
  • Case of the century (1633)
  • Tried by Roman Catholic Church
  • Rational
  • Publishing Dialog on The Two Chief World
    Systems
  • Defended Copernican Theory of the Universe
  • Strongly rejected well-accepted Aristotelian
    Theory

11
Galileos Famous Trial
  • Consequences
  • Charged for heresy
  • Prohibited form mentioning the Copernicanism
  • Sentenced to life imprisonment within his house _at_
    70 years old
  • Book was burned

12
Social Scientific Influences
  • Most important scientist in the 16th Century
  • Started the Age of Reasoning
  • Greatly admired inspiring
  • His courage for standing against a wrong system
    of beliefs
  • Father of the Space Age
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