Galileo, Life Outline
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Galileo Outline
I. Galileo Galileis 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. Galileos Ramp Experiment
In his ramp experiment, Galileo demonstrated gravity on a more measurable scale than dropping things from buildings
We (in class) proved Galileos 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 Galileos 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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