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Galileo Galilei was born February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy. He was a Tuscan (Italian) astronomer, physicist, mathematician, inventor, and philosopher. His father, Vincenzo Galilei, was a musical theorist and while doing that he supported his family by selling cloth his mother, Giulia di Cosimo Ammannati, was just a housewife. His father had planned for him to study medicine, but he went to study mathematics. Galileo had many accomplishments / developments that changed our world even till today. He had met someone he liked called Marina Gamba and later on he had three children 1 boy and 2 girls. They were Vincenzo, Maria, and Livia. Both Maria and Livia were nuns. His son Vincenzo was named after his father, because he was the one that sent him to school and study even though he didn't follow what his father had hoped for him. During the time he had met Marina he was in house arrest because he got the Pope mad because of his discovery. So he was in house arrest until his death which is January 8, 1642. Galileo had many accomplishments that made him different from other people during the 15th century. He had entered the University of Pisa when he was like 17 years old. He acquired his knowledge because his dad sent him to university to study medicine, but he actually went to study mathematics. He went to study math because …show more content…

Galileo did not believe this theory but did believe in Archimedes theory that even though bodies (spheres) have different weight the fall velocity is still the same rate. Because of this discovery he had found, this made him unpopular with his colleagues that believe in Aristotle's theory which were a lot. This also affected his job at the university and when his dad died, he didn't have enough money to help him. When he did this it was called the theory of uniform

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