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Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
English level 7
Galileo Galilei
Galileo was born when Catholicism was really radical. He was a math teacher at the university. One of
his students told him about a new invention that was used to observe distant objects. Galileo invented
the telescope based on that invention and broke a lot of misconceptions and paradigms. He discovered
that some planets have moons that orbit around those planets. Therefore, he proposed that Earth was
not the center of the universe. Instead, Earth was orbiting the Sun the same way the Moon orbits Earth.
He was the first one who observed the sun spots breaking the idea that the Sun is perfect. Obviously,
these observations brought him problems with the Inquisition. He also invented the Scientific Method
that consists on approving a theory based on experimental evidence. The Scientific Method has changed
the way of science in the Middle Age and now it is responsible of the most amazing inventions.