Galileo Galilei
was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa.” (1:1) “His father, Vincenzo Galilei, belonged to a noble family of straitened fortune.” (2:1) Galileo had an “aptitude for mathematical and mechanical pursuits, but his parents, wishing to turn him aside from studies which promised no substantial return, destined him for the medical profession.” (2:1) “But all was in vain, and at an early age the youth had to be left to follow the bent of his native genius, which speedily paved him in the very first rank of natural philosophers.” (2:1)
His father, and accomplished scholar, taught Galileo a love for learning and a distaste for authority. He was encouraged to study medicine and enrolled in the ...
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order to prove Aristotle wrong, Galileo would perform an experiment. “It was at Pisa, of course, that the famous leaning tower might well have suggested Galileo's most famous experiment.” (4:1) “What the leaning tower of Pisa type of experiment demonstrates, when actually performed, is that Aristotle was wrong, and that no matter what the difference in weight, two heavy objects will fall simultaneously at virtually the same speed.” (4: 2-3)
Recently it has been fashionable to question whether or not Galileo dropped anything off the campanile-or leaning tower--of the Duomo in Pisa. If he did so, it certainly could not have been an “experiment” in the modern sense of the word-trying to drop objects of different weights simultaneously, from the edge of the tower, at the very same time,which is not easy to do, and then observe how quickly they fall, especially when time elapsed would only have been a matter of seconds-and nothing like the stop watch or any other convenient device-had ...
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investigate using experiments.”(1:2) That was only one of Galileo's great contributions to modern day science. “In 1609, he heard of the invention of the telescope in Holland. Soon thereafter, he had built a much improved version for himself.” (1:1) “The invention of the first thermometer is also credited to him.” (1:3)
Galileo's teachings of the Copernican theory and the way he presented his other ideas got the attention of the Catholic Church, and he was brought to Inquisition. He was charged with being a heretic, and that is what my primary document is about-Galileo: Heretic.
Summary of Galileo: Heretic By: Pietro Redondi
In the first section I read in Galileo: Heretic, ...
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