galileo

Galileo Galilei was an astronomer and mathematician, he was, 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 …showed first 75 words of 1943 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1943 total…than his invention of the microscope, Galileo deserves to be known as one of the greatest scientists the world has ever known. Biblography 1. Drake, Stillman - 1990, GALILEO: PIONEER SCIENTIST, The University of Chicago Press, pp. 261 2. De Santillana, Giorgio - 1955, THE CRIME OF GALILEO, The University of Chicago Press, pp. 339 3. Hitzeroth, Deborah, Sharon Heerboth - 1961, THE IMPORTANCE OF GALILEO GALILEI, Lucent Books, pp. 95 4. Shapere, Dudley - 1974, GALILEO A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY, The University of Chicago Press, pp. 161