Galileo Galilei
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Galileo, the beggining
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Born in 1564. in Tuscany
The oldest son of Vincenzo Galilei
Dark Ages, verge of 16th century
Intellectual revolution
Began in era of Galileo Galilei
 17th century
 Developments in mathematics, physics,
astronomy, biology, medicine
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Achievements
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New form of hydrostatic balance for
weighing small quantaties
La bilancetta (“The Little Balance”)
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Theoremes on centres of gravity
The speed of fall of a heavy object is not
proportional to its weight
Leaning towers in
Pisa
Books :
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The Starry Messenger (1610)
Discourse on Floating Bodies (1612)
Letters on the Sunspots (1613)
The Assayer (1623)
The Discourses on the Two New Sciences
(1638)
The Two Chief World Systems (1632)
Significance of Galileo
Faught against ignorance and blind beliefs
 Step forward by thiking
 Giving inovations and theories
 „out of the box“
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Post Galileo time
Huge impact on science after his death
 Father of modern science
 Developed a lot of theories that will be
foundation to more complex discoveries
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He had strong influence for freedom of
inquiry and against authority
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Translations of Dialogue and Letter
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French writers during the Enlightenment also
made Galileo a symbol of religious
persecution
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