Galileo, Life Outline

Galileo Outline

I. Galileo Galilei's Life

==> Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy on the 15th of February in 1564

==> He was the first of six children born to Vincenzo Galilei and Giulia Ammanati

==> With schooling Galileo became fluent in both Latin and Greek, as well as his native Italian.

==> Galileo was pressured to go into medicine by his father, although he probably would have preferred to be a painter.

==> Galileo began studying medicine at the University of Pisa in 1581, but soon thereafter switched to mathematics, which he believed was his true calling.

==> After he had studied mathematics in great depth he taught the subject in Florence and Siena

II. Galileo and 16th/17th Century Politics

==> Galileo strongly believed in the Copernican heliocentric system which was highly controversial during the Romans Inquisition

==> While Galileo was teaching mathematics in Florence he was summoned and interrogated by the Roman Inquisition

==> His defense of Copernicus' system led him to condemnation in 1633

III. Galileo's Ramp Experiment

==> In his ramp experiment, Galileo demonstrated gravity on a more measurable scale than dropping things from buildings

==> We (in class) proved Galileo's equation that D=t^2 be doing the ramp experiment

==> We measured where the ball had rolled to after one second, then we placed the same intervals all the way down the ramp

==> Then we measured the amount of intervals the ball had passed after two and three seconds, each number was consistent with Galileo's equation

IV. Other Observations and Experiments Made by Galileo

==> Galileo became fascinated with the idea of a telescope and built bigger and better ones than had ever been built, he then recorded many astronomical observations which he went on to publish

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