The life of GALILEO GALILEI?

Question

WHO IS GALILEO AND HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN THE SCIENCE WORLD AND HOW THEY IMPACT THE SCIENCE WORLD

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Galileo was an Italian physicist and astronomer credited with building the first effective telescope. He used this to prove that the earth moves round the sun.

This confirmed the theory originally put forward by the Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus. But it went directly against the teachings of the Church i.e; the earth was the centre of the Universe and the Sun revolved round the Earth.

It was this conflict with the teachings of the Church that was to eventually bring Galileo to the attention of the Inquisition.

Galileo was summoned to Rome to face the Inquisition and to stand trial for "grave suspicion of heresy." This charge was grounded on a report that Galileo had been personally ordered in 1616 not to discuss Coperican theory either orally or in writing. Cardinal Bellarmine had died, but Galileo produced a certificate signed by the cardinal stating that Galileo had been subjected to no further restriction than any other Roman Catholic under the 1616 edict. No signed document contradicting this was ever found.

Answer 3

Galileo Galili was the primary vehicle by which the scientific method was reintroduced into Western Civilization, after having been lost for almost 1000 years.  His impact goes far beyond his work in Astronomy, on the telescope, or even with the microscope which he may have actually invented.  His fight with the Church led to a revolution in intellectual freedom;  people began to think and express those thoughts without the fear of being tortured as a heretic for undermining the political leverage of the church.  Copernicus may have discovered the right approach, but he played it safe and published upon his death.  It was Galileo who took the fight to the establishment and who in that sense was the father of modern science.

Answer 4

Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was a Tuscan (Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of science", and “the Father of Modern Science.” The motion of uniformly accelerated objects, taught in nearly all high school and introductory college physics courses, was studied by Galileo as the subject of kinematics. His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter, named the Galilean moons in his honour, and the observation and analysis of sunspots. Galileo also worked in applied science and technology, improving compass design.

Galileo's championing of Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime. The geocentric view had been dominant since the time of Aristotle, and the controversy engendered by Galileo's presentation of heliocentrism as proven fact resulted in the Catholic Church's prohibiting its advocacy as empirically proven fact, because it was not empirically proven at the time and was contrary to the literal meaning of Scripture. Galileo was eventually forced to recant his heliocentrism and spent the last years of his life under house arrest on orders of the Inquisition.