Galileo
What is a scientist?
What the person does
What is science?
What a scientist does
Why is Galileo a great scientist?
Who was he?
Born 1564-1642, Italian, born in Pisa, an important thinker and had problems with the roman catholic church
In 1589, he became a professor of mathematics at the university of Pisa
In 1592, he took a position as a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at the university of Padua
From 1592-1610, he worked in Padua and Venice
From 1610-1632, he was appointed to a position and court philosopher by the ruler of Florence
In 1633, he was condemned by the holy Inquisition of the roman catholic church
1642, he dies at his villa near Florence
What makes him great?
Changed the way people think in the world at his time about the universe
He is simply the most famous marter of science
What makes him a great scientist?
In November 1609, he devloped the telescope and used it to discover new things in the sky
Between 1590 and 1610, he tested and verified a set of mathemetical formula establishing relationship between a motion of object, time and distance
What is the science Galileo did and why is what Galileo did science?
First: observe something in nature and come up with a hypothesis
Second: come up with a way to test the observation
Third: experiment it
Fourth: publish the results
What makes the science that Galileo did different from other sciences that other scientists did?
Galileo believes that there is no much difference between his sicence and other sciences ex: theology, philosophy
He used his science to say that this is the truth that the Bible ultimately means and say
Why the church condemed Galileo about the earth revolving around the sun?
He insulted the pope and anyone who didnot accept his ideas
He disapointed what have been proven for two thousands years and embeded in the Bible and the teachings of the church
In advocating the idea of Copernicus (heliocentric), he had small evidence and proof that relegion and science prooved it
what is "good" science as opposed to "bad" science?
Good science: whats been proven true and accepted from great scientists ex: Newton
Bad science: ex: people that said there was marsian civillization