Galileo Timelines

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  • Feb 15, 1564

    Birth of Galileo

    He was born in Pisa, Italy and was the first of seven children

  • Galileo attends the University of Pisa

    He began to study medicine until 1585

  • Galileo reads the work of Johannes Kepler

    He reads and writes to Kepler that he is afraid to publicly agree with Copernicus

  • Galileo invents a mechanical device for mathematical calculations

  • Galileo observes a supernova

    This is his first astronomical observation that begins to challenge Aristotle

  • Galileo views moons around Jupiter

  • Galileo publishes his findings in the Starry Messenger

    He also began studying Venus this year

  • Galileo publishes his ideas on sun spots

  • Galileo finally publishes his book supporting Copernican theories

    He worked on this for 6 years to perfect it without reaching contreversial conclusions

  • Galileo is tried for Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems — Ptolemaic and Copernican.

    His book was seen as an insult to the Catholic Church

  • Birth of Marie Curie

    Marie Sklodowska is born in Warsaw, Poland to two teachers

  • Marie’s work is influenced

    Her greatest works, which pertained to answering why X-rays formed, were inspired by Wilhelm Roentgen and Antoine Henri Becquerel

  • Marie Sklodowska becomes Marie Curie

    She marries a scientist named Pierre Curie in Paris

  • Marie discovers a new element

    Marie Curie discovered an element that was 400 times more radioactive than any other, radium

  • Marie separates radium to see its own effect

    She found the glowing effect of radium in her shed

  • Marie gains her phD

    Marie Curie got her doctorate in physics as the first woman in France to get it

  • Marie gains a Nobel prize

    Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel shared a Nobel Prize

  • Marie gets to teach in university

    Marie Curie gains Pierre’s job after his death

  • Marie gets another Nobel Prize

    She gained another prize for chemistry

  • Death of Marie Curie

    Marie Curie died in 1934 of leukemia