If you ask anyone who was the most influential astronomer of all time, it is a safe bet that the majority would name Galileo Galilei. His contribution to observational astronomy was immense, earning him a place as one of the greatest scientists of all time, notable for his use of the scie...
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, whose innovations and methods progressed the field of observational astronomy, physics, and the scientific method. After...
Galileo Galilei (Feb. 15, 1564-Jan. 8, 1642) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy, to a noble family, and studied at the University of Pisa (1581-1585). While in the University, Galileo did extensive experimentation with pendulums, ...
GalileoGalileiwasborninPisa,Italy,in1564.Hisfathertaughtmusicwhilehismothercaredforkidsathome.Thefamilywasnotwealthy,butGalileo'sparentspaidforhimtogotoschool.AtfirstGalileoplannedtobecomeadoctor,buthechangedhismind.Helikedadifferentkindofscience—physics.InGalileo'stime,notmuchwasknownabouthowobjectsmoved....
Galileo (Galilei), (born Feb. 15, 1564, Pisa—died Jan. 8, 1642, Arcetri, near Florence), Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist.
family was originally named Bonaiuti, but they had an illustrious ancestor named Galileo Bonaiuti (1370–1450) who was a physician and public officer in Pisa. One branch of the family broke off and began calling itself Galilei ("of Galileo"), and so Galileo Galilei was doubly named after ...
The family moved to Florence in the early 1570s, where the Galilei family had lived for generations. In his middle teens Galileo attended the monastery school at Vallombrosa, near Florence, and then in 1581 matriculated at the University of Pisa, where he was to study medicine. ...
Galileo’s Early Life, Education and Experiments Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa in 1564, the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei, a musician and scholar. In 1581 he entered the University of Pisa at age 16 to study medicine, but was soon sidetracked by mathematics. He left without...
Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa into a family of minor nobility. His father, Vincenzio, gave lessons in music (and studied its mathematical theory) and helped his wife’s family in their small business. He wished for his son a better than their modest (if not poor) standard of living...
Our trust in scientific instruments, which today forms the basis of most scientific research, originated with Galileo Galilei. A discussion of the cultural, scientific, and social atmosphere of the sixteenth century yields an understanding of the central role of Galileo in the development of science...