Galilio(1564-1642)

What is scientist?

What is science?

What is good and bad science?

What makes "science" different from- other ways of understanding the world-philosophy,theology..ect?And who cares?

Italian great thinker born in florance and become an important thinker,scholarand writer

His writings got him into trouble with the Roman Catholic Church.

observe

hypothesize

devise a way to test the hypothesis

test the hypothesis

publish the results

Galilo changed the world and the way people understand and look at the universe

He became history's most famous"Martyer of science" after his condemnation by the church

In 1609 he transfered the telescope from a toy into a powerful instrument of discovering the universe by pointing it at the night sky

He tested and verified a set of mathmatical formulae establishing formal relationship between the motion of an object,time and distance

Those formed the basis of modern science of physics

He made enemies of key figures inside and outside the chursh

He seemed to challenge the natural philosophy of the day and the teachings of the church as it absorbed it 2000 years

He didn't find a convincing response to the resons why the heliocentric theory had been rejected

He failed to offer a proof that the old ptolemic system contradicted to the observable evidance or the copernican system was better explanation