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On February 15th, 1564, Galileo Galilei a great astronomer, mathematician, and scientist, was born. He created many great inventions that I will discuss later. -
In Galileo's middle teens, he was enrolled in the monastery school of Vallombrosa, near Florence -
Once he was done with his schooling, Galileo enrolled at the University of Pisa, where he began studying medicine. -
Galileo discovered the telescope, making many different discoveries, including the stars orbiting Jupiter. Without him discovering the telescope,e it may have been worse than what we have today, or we may not have it at all. -
With Galileo's new telescope, he discovered the following: mountains and craters on the Moon, the phases of Venus, Jupiter's moons, and the Milky Way's stars. This impacted today by putting more interest on the topic of space, having many speculate that his discoveries inspired many great space "explorers," for example,e NASA -
Left his medical practice to become a philosopher and mathematician to the grand duke of Tuscany -
The pope is infuriated at Dialogo, placing Galileo on trial for one thing after another. he was placed under suspicion of "vehement suspicion of heresy" but was convicted of holding and teaching the Copernican belief. -
Soon before he goes blind, Galileo discovers that the moon makes librations. These liberations were discovered to impact things like tides, times, and light. -
At the age of 72, Galileo went blind -
Galileo died from an illness in 1642