Galileo thought he was going to be a priest early on in life and was urged by his dad to go to medical school. He went into mathmatics instead and studied fine arts and writing. He was then appointed the chair of mathmatics hten moved and taught mathmatic classes. He had 6 brothers that he took care of and had three children out of wedlock with the same women. He was the first to point his telescope up and proved that the Earth went around the Sun and that planets were not perfect spheres. He saw Jupiters moons proving that not everything orbited the Earth. Galileo had a hard life and was ambitious in proving and fixing discoveries made by different scientists as well as making his own discoveries. He proved many times that the Sun was the center of our solar system. By showing all of his discoveries and writing things that mocked people he got into some trouble. He did things against the rules of society which upset the church. He believed that the tides were a result of Earhs motion not from the moon. He ended up under house arrest. He also develped a water clock and came up with the laws of inertia before we new what forces were. He also developed the theory of friction.
I had not realized how hard of a life Galileo faced and how much bad pulicity he had caused. He was very troublesome in his writings as well he mocked a lot of people when he got angry. This podcast was very interesting it gave a lot more inforrmation that what is usually published in textbooks.
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