Galileo exploring the renaissance world

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On the day of February 15, 1564 at Pisa, Italy, Giulia degli Ammannati gave birth to Galileo Galilei, an inventive and heroic first child. His father, Vincenzo Galilei played an important part in his son's life, as he revolved medieval polyphony to harmonic modulation. Thus, giving Galileo the chance to be apart of the renaissance world.

At the age of 17, Galileo entered the University of Pisa as a medical student, however he soon became interested in mathematics and left without a degree in 1585. It is said to be that whilst Galileo was studying the pendulum at the university, he made discoveries about a suspended lamp swinging back and forth. This was Galileo's first discovery. His mathematical interests eventually made him a professor at Pisa, 1589.

During this year, Galileo was educated about the physics of Aristotle whilst as the university. Galileo started questioning the Aristotle approach to physics.

Basically he disproved Aristotle's theory and asserted that all objects, regardless of their weight, fall at the same rate in a vacuum. He wrote his discoveries in his book " De motu" which means On Motion.

When Galileo was 65, he made his most famous invention, the telescope. It was the most central instrument of what has been called the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. It was unveiled in the Netherlands, but it was Galileo who made the instrument famous. In 6 months, Galileo had constructed a telescope that had a magnifying power of 32. It could be adjusted as a microscope as well. He turned it on to the heavens and started the age of telescopic astronomy.

Galileo's inventions include; The Pendulum which he started discovering and studying in 1581; The Hydrostatic Balance, that he wrote an article about when he was 22, called " La...