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GALILEO

Content
Galileo’s Biography

Telescope

The Movement

The Method
Galileo Galilei
Pisa, Toscana 1564-1642.
Aristotelian paradigm

Rupture with the


settled theories of
Aristotelian physics
Geocentric Theory
Church and Inquisition
Galileo opposed:

a. The teachings of the bible

c. The Aristotelian approaches

d. The Copenian theory

b. All of above
The Telescope
The Moon
Jupiter’s Moons
Copernico’s Solar System
Think about...

Why don’t we feel the earth’s movement?

How can something move without any pushing it?

How can the Galileo’s observations support the heliocentric theory?


Heliocentric Theory
Platonic Solids
Kepler’s System Solar
The Movement
Falling Bodies
The Method
References
Bust photograph of Aristotle taken from
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arist%C3%B3teles#/media/File:Aristotle_Altemps_Inv
8575.jpg

Image of aristotle´s book “physics” taken from


https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/317V78A0AwL._AC_UL320_
SR214,320_.jpg

galileo's trial
https://www.ruizhealytimes.com/sites/default/files/styles/articles_horizontal/public/
articles/2015/02/juicio_a_galileo_galilei.jpg?itok=w1254rf6

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