GALILEO GALILEI

BY DAKSHAESWAR MUTHUKRISHNAN
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was a great Italian mathematician and astronomer.
He was born in Pisa on February 15,1564,in the same year as William Shakespeare.
GALILEO GALILEI

The pendulum clock was suggested by Galileo after watching a swinging lamp in 1583.
Learning of the telescope’s invention, Galileo made his own to look at Jupiter, Venus
and the Moon.
Galileo described his observations of space in a book called ‘The Starry Night’.
Galileo’s experiments with balls rolling down slopes laid the basis of how gravity
affects acceleration.
 Through his telescope Galileo saw that Jupiter has 4 Moons. He also saw that Venus
has phases as our Moon does.
 Jupiter’s Moons and Venus’ phases were the first visible evidence of Copernicus’
theory that Earth moves around the Sun. Galileo also believed this.
 Galileo was declared a heretic in 1616 by the Catholic Church, for his beliefs and
ended his life under house arrest.