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The Life and Achievements of Galileo Galilei The paper which I will be writing will discuss the life, discoveries, and the modern impact of the scientific accomplishments of Galileo Galilei. Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy in February 15, 1564. He entered University of Pisa as a medical student in 1581 at the age of seventeen. After four years Galileo had to leave the University without graduating because his family could no longer afford to pay for his education and he was more interested in matter, energy, motion and force - the science of physics. Over the next several years, with the help of a family friend, Ostillio Ricci, Galileo mastered mathematics and physics. Although Galileo did not graduate at the University of Pisa, he returned there as a professor of mathematics. On 1952, Galileo was then appointed as a professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, where he remained for 18 years.

An astronomer, physicist and mathematician, Galileo was, unfortunately for himself, a man ahead of his time.

Galileo discovered the law of uniformly accelerated motion towards the Earth, the parabolic path of projectiles, and the law that all bodies have weight. Among his other accomplishments was the improvement of the refracting telescope in 1610 and his advocacy of the Copernican theory which brought him into a conflict of ideas and truths between himself and the Inquisition. He was condemned by the church whose theories threatened everything that was taught by the priesthood as the holy truth and he was eventually broken by the Inquisition.

Before being ultimately defeated by the church, however, Galileo made many contributions to the world of physics. His scientific discoveries and endeavors were only a portion of his contributions to the scientific community. Galileo's methods of testing and proving his theories were also...