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Renaissance: Galileo in Four Minutes Video Worksheet

(Galileo Galilei - in a Nutshell Video 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=NMM8vx9vDiE

1. What is Galileo a “pioneer” of?

Astronomy and biology

2. List several of the ways Galileo changed our understanding of science:

He made Compasses and improved telescopes and microscopes

3. How did Galileo disprove geocentrism?

With his observation of venus he was able to figure out that the plant was a orbiting the sun
not earth

4. What did Galileo decide about the laws of physics?

He decided that force causes acceleration
 
5. What is heliocentrism?
A model of the sun and all the planets around it

6. Why was Galileo sentenced to house arrest by the Catholic Church?

Holding the belief that the earth revolves around the sun

7. Why is Galileo considered the father of modern physics by many scientists?

He pioneered the experimental scientifically methods
(Galileo – Fun Facts in a Nutshell Video 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maqhxq_LEMQ

8. When is the first known time that people proposed that the Earth revolves around
the Sun?
The first known time the earth revolved around the sun was 1543

9. What later scientists did Galileo influence?

He influenced sir Isaac newton

10. Did Galileo graduate from college?

No he was a college dropout

11. Why was Galileo buried twice?

Because he was convicted of heresy

12. What happened to Galileo’s middle finger?

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An admirer decided to chop it off

13. List or explain something new or interesting you learned by watching these two
videos:
We learned about how the solar system was founded and about Galileos ife

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