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Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was a Tuscan (Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer, an philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of science", and “the Father of Modern Science.” The motion of uniformly accelerated objects, taught in nearly all high school and introductory college physics courses, was studied by Galileo as the subject of kinematics. His contributions to observational astronomy include the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter, named the Galilean moons in his honour, and the observation and analysis of sunspots. Galileo also worked in applied science and technology, improving compass design.

Trivia about galileo

  • In August 1971 on the Moon's surface, an astronaut repeated a famous experiment & declared that this man "was correct"
  • A statue of this man is being erected inside the Vatican's walls near where he was locked up in 1633
  • To honor his work, this man's daughter took the name Maria Celeste when she became a nun in 1616
  • (Sofia of the Clue Crew hangs out with a probe replica at the Jet Propulsion Lab.) In 1995 on Jupiter, this craft, named for a scientist, made the first direct measurements of a giant planet's atmosphere
  • Mr. Galilei;they say he dropped some weight
  • In 1633 this astronomer was found guilty of "vehement suspicion of heresy"
  • Like this Italian, American astronomer Seth Nicholson discovered 4 moons of Jupiter
  • In 1589 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa
  • He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter in 1610
  • This astronomer had a brother named Michelangelo who was a musician, not an artist
  • In 1589 he began experimenting in Pisa with falling objects using inclined planes to slow the rate of descent
  • In 1633 he was brought before the Inquisition for believing the doctrine of the Earth moving around the sun
  • In 1589 Kevin Federline became a professor at the University of Pisa & taught mathematics
  • In the 1600s his findings like the phases of Venus made this Italian think maybe the sun is what stuff revolves around
  • In 1633 the Inquisition in Rome forced him to recant his belief in the Copernican theory
  • In 1633 Descartes suppressed his book "The World" because it supported the ideas of this Italian
  • When his friend became Pope in 1623, he thought he'd be allowed to discuss his heliocentric theory
  • Langdon finds clues in a work by this Italian called a heretic due to his pro-Copernican views
  • In 1992 the Catholic Church admitted it erred in condemning this man 359 years before
  • In 1589 he became a professor of mathematics at the U. of Pisa; in 1592 he moved on the U. of Padua
  • A law of falling bodies associated with this Italian says that they fall at the same speed regardless of their mass
  • In 1610, while serving as court mathematician for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, he first observed the rings of Saturn
  • In 1610 Cosimo de Medici made this astronomer his court mathematician
  • He doubled his salary & received tenure after giving the Doge of Venice a telescope for naval operations
  • This astronomer's notes show he may have seen Neptune in 1609; he just didn't recognize it as a planet
  • The airport in Pisa, Italy is named for this scientist who performed a few experiments from the city's famous leaning tower
  • In August 1609 he demonstrated his newly constructed telescope to the senate of Venice, who then doubled his salary
  • On a visit to Florence, Milton met this astronomer, then under inquisitorial house arrest
  • The original report on this scientist's 1633 trial is among the Vatican archive's many documents
  • The finger of this man (d. 1642) was snipped off as his remains were moved & is now at Museo di Storia della Scienzia
  • Pisa proudly proclaims itself the birthplace of this scientist in 1564
  • In 1610 this Italian discovered that Venus has phases like the moon
  • On July 10, 1996 scientists released close-up photos of Ganymede taken by this space probe
  • In 1610 he described the moon as seen in his telescope as having a "rough and unequal" surface
  • At the end of his 1633 trial he is said to have muttered with regard to the Earth, "Even so, it does move"
  • In his 1613 "Letters On Sunspots", he openly supported the Copernican theory
  • In 1633 Urban VIII had this man tried; Father Firenzuola prosecuted
  • In 1633 the Catholic Church found him guilty of teaching heresy; in 1992 they admitted they were wrong
  • In 1992 the Pope publicly announced that the Church had made a mistake condemning this man in 1633
  • In 1610 he wrote Belisario Vinta, "The moon is most evidently not at all even, smooth and regular surface"
  • He discovered the 4 largest moons of Jupiter, but Simon Marius gave them names
  • After the arrest & trial of this "sun-loving" Italian, Descartes suppressed his own work on similar ideas
  • This astronomer was born in Pisa, Italy February 15, 1564
  • Born in Pisa in the 16th century, he studied the laws of falling bodies & the motions of projectiles
  • The Inquisition forced him to retract his belief the Earth orbits the Sun
  • Charles Darwin,Galileo,Max Planck
  • He told of the discoveries he made looking through a telescope in 1610's "The Sidereal Messenger"
  • This Italian discovered the laws of the pendulum when he observed a hanging lamp swinging back & forth
  • In 1610 he described the moon as seen in his telescope as having a "rough and unequal" surface
  • After recanting is belief that the Earth orbits the sun, he's said to have muttered, "But it does move"
  • In 1633 the Church condemned him to house arrest for astronomical heresy
  • Urban VIII, captured by telephoto here, told this 17th-century astronomer to go ahead & publish, but be careful
  • 1609:This Italian makes the first practical use of a telescope to study the Moon
  • In 1996 a space probe named after this Italian astronomer gathered data from Jupiter's natural satellites
  • While teaching at the Univ. of Padua in 1610, he discovered 4 moons of Jupiter using a 30-power telescope
  • Topol was tops as this Italian astronomer in the 1973 film based on Bertolt Brecht's play
  • This Italian spent his last 8 years under house arrest for teaching... shh! the Earth goes around the sun!
  • In 1998 a craft named for him photographed volcanic plumes on Io, a Jovian moon he discovered in 1610
  • Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, was discovered by this man in 1610
  • When he found Venus had phases like the moon, he cautiously announced it in the form of an anagram
  • After his 1633 sentencing, he said he must "abandon the false opinion that the sun is the center of the world"
  • A spacecraft sent to explore Jupiter is named for this Italian astronomer who discovered 4 of Jupiter's moons
  • In 1589 he was made professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa; his contract wasn't renewed in 1592
  • In 1610 he made the amazing discovery of 4 objects circling Jupiter; he dubbed them "Medicean stars"
  • Italian whose legendary experiment is recreated in the exhibit (Leaning Tower of Pisa) seen here
  • (Jon of the Clue Crew stands on a ladder and drops two items.) An object's weight does not affect the speed at which it falls, so the shoe & the paper hit the ground at the same time, as this Italian first predicted
  • "Astronomical" Brecht drama(7)
  • In 1610 he published his discovery of 4 moons of Jupiter in "The Starry Messenger"
  • In 1610 this Italian made his biggest discovery: the 4 largest moons of Jupiter
  • Florence's Museo Storia Della Scienza has 2 of his telescopes & the lens of the one that found 4 moons of Jupiter
  • Appropriately, a NASA probe that orbited Jupiter for more than 8 years was named for this astronomer
  • Dava Sobel's "Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love", "____'s Daughter"
  • Just months after publishing "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems", he was tried for heresy
  • Born in 1564, this Italian often used a pendulum in his studies of motion
  • In 1609, using a weak 9-power telescope, he discovered that Venus has phases just like our moon