Galileo Galilei, an Italian mathematician and natural philosopher, made significant contributions to science between the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Born in Pisa in 1564, he held academic positions in Pisa, Padua, and Florence, and was appointed court philosopher by the ruler of Florence from 1610 to 1632.
300 years after Galileo has been burned few scientists had something to offer in southern Europe, it moved to northern Europe
What makes "science" different from other ways of seeking to understand the universe and our places in it from philosophy or theology and other sciences?
what is "good" science as opposed to "bad" science?
Bad science: ex: people that said there was marsian civillization
Good science: whats been proven true and accepted from great scientists ex: Newton
Why is Galileo a great scientist?
Why the church condemed Galileo about the earth revolving around the sun?
In advocating the idea of Copernicus (heliocentric), he had small evidence and proof that relegion and science prooved it
He disapointed what have been proven for two thousands years and embeded in the Bible and the teachings of the church
He insulted the pope and anyone who didnot accept his ideas
What makes the science that Galileo did different from other sciences that other scientists did?
He used his science to say that this is the truth that the Bible ultimately means and say
Galileo believes that there is no much difference between his sicence and other sciences ex: theology, philosophy
What is the science Galileo did and why is what Galileo did science?
Fourth: publish the results
Third: experiment it
Second: come up with a way to test the observation
First: observe something in nature and come up with a hypothesis
What makes him a great scientist?
Between 1590 and 1610, he tested and verified a set of mathemetical formula establishing relationship between a motion of object, time and distance
In November 1609, he devloped the telescope and used it to discover new things in the sky
What makes him great?
He is simply the most famous marter of science
Changed the way people think in the world at his time about the universe
Who was he?
1642, he dies at his villa near Florence
In 1633, he was condemned by the holy Inquisition of the roman catholic church
From 1610-1632, he was appointed to a position and court philosopher by the ruler of Florence
From 1592-1610, he worked in Padua and Venice
In 1592, he took a position as a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at the university of Padua
In 1589, he became a professor of mathematics at the university of Pisa
Born 1564-1642, Italian, born in Pisa, an important thinker and had problems with the roman catholic church