So, for my final project in Science 8, we have to write a six - paragraph essay on our topic, which for me, is obviously Galileo. Is the essay riddled with grammatical errors and spelling mistakes? You tell me.
During his lifetime, Galileo Galilei achieved many things in the fields of mathematics, astronomy and physics. During his lifetime Galileo created a telescope that magnified up to thirty times more than the already invented one could. With this telescope he discovered Jupiter’s four moons, along with proving the theory that the earth revolved around the sun, rather than the sun revolving around the earth. Galileo made many contributions to the world of science, making him one of the most renowned men in history.
Galileo was born in Pisa in 1564. Somewhere around the 1570, he moved to Florence. Galileo was never married, but he did have affairs with a woman named Marina Gamba, who bore his three children. Galileo had two daughters, who both became nuns, and one son. After the children grew up, Marina married a man named Giovanni Batoluzzi and Vincienzo, Galileo’s son, followed his father to Florence where he continued his philosophical studies.
When Galileo applied for a job at the University of Bologna, they didn’t hire him. Still searching for a job, Galileo applied at the University he went to, the University of Pisa. Unfortunately he only stayed there for two years, and once again, he was unemployed. Finally in 1592 he was hired at one of the greater Universities at that time, The University of Padua.
Nicolaus Copernicus was a man who composed a theory that said that rather than the sun revolving around the earth, the earth revolved around the sun. Galileo, at the time teaching at the University of Pisa, was told to teach exactly what this theory went against. Using the telescope that he had invented prior to discovering this theory, Galileo found that Copernicus was right.
Galileo discovered the theory of the heavier an object was, the faster it would fall. Galileo challenged this theory by coming up the equation: distance equals time squared. He discovered that gravity had an equal pull on all falling objects, therefore rendering the Greek scientists wrong.
When Galileo began to teach the Copernican theory (where the earth revolved around the sun instead of vice versa) he was sent to the holy office to have his sentence read, for he was suspected of heresy ever since he went against his churches beliefs. He wasn’t put in prison, but he went into house arrest in 1633, where he returned to his home outside of Florence. For nine years he remained there, until he passed away on January 8, 1942.
Galileo made countless contributions to modern-day society. In 1608, the telescope was created in the Netherlands; Galileo discovered this invention and, based on uncertain assumptions, created a telescope with 32X magnification. With this new invention, Galileo could look into space and study the planets and stars and such at a much closer range.
As you can see, without Galileo, we probably would have taken a much longer time to discover how the objects in space actually work, and how they are relevant to everyday human life. We would not have the technology we have today, and multiple notable experiences in history probably wouldn’t have happened. The Space Race with Russia – would we even had known what was actually out there? When we put a man on the moon, how did we know the exact coordinates of the moon and where it could have possibly been? The telescope itself has been an incredibly important contribution to humanity, discovering the planets – their suns and their moons. All these discoveries are because of the one and the only, Galileo Galilei.
