Galileo Galilei

By: Dacey Presnell

The Invention of The Telescope
- Galileo was not the inventor of the telescope
- Galileo had improved upon a dutch design
- He built his first telescope in 1609
- He observed/discovered:
- The moons of Jupiter (the four largest)
- The rings of Saturn
- The phases of Venus
- Sunspots
- The moon’s rugged surface
- He published a short book explaining his discoveries (making him a
celebrity in Italy)
- To try and gain favor of the duke of Tuscany (Cosimo II de Medici),
he suggested they name Jupiter’s moons “Medician Stars”
Self-Advocacy/Promotion

- This helped him earn powerful friends (among Italy’s

ruling elite) as well as enemies among the Catholic
church’s leaders
- His advocacy of a heliocentric universe brought him
before religious authorities in 1616 and 1633
- He was then forced to recant (in 1633) and then placed
under house arrest for the rest of his life
Quick Facts
- Galileo was a college dropout
- Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey is generally
credited with the creation of the Telescope, not
Galileo
- Galileo’s daughters were nuns
- Galileo’s middle finger is on display at the Museo di
Storia del Scienza in Florence, Italy
Sources
- https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/251/galileos-finger/#:~:text
=Galileo%20Galilei's%20finger%20is%20on,del%20Scienza
%20in%20Florence%2C%20Italy.
- https://www.history.com/news/8-things-you-may-not-know-a
bout-galileo
- https://history.aip.org/exhibits/cosmology/tools/tools-first-tel
escopes.htm#:~:text=While%20Galileo%20did%20not%20in
vent,to%20present%20to%20his%20patrons.
Thank You