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Life Of A Scientist Essay
Introduction
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Galileo Galilei unlocked some of nature’s secrets through the use of seemingly simple inventions — among them the telescope and the pendulum. (Galileo 2011) His inquisitive attitude made him a pioneer in physics, as well as the founding father of the scientific method.
This renowned scientist played a vital role in the Scientific Revolution. Galileo Galilei was born February 15, 1564 in Pisa. An Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher and, the first to use a refracting telescope to make imperative astronomical discoveries. (Ryan, 2005) The first to use a telescope to study the heavens systematically and objectively, and discovered the Moon’s rocky mountains, Jupiter’s four major satellites, and the phases of Venus. (Sheehan, 2009) Galileo (The Father of Modern Science) had many accomplishments, discoveries, inventions, and also proved and disproved some theories by other scientists. Galileo Galilei was a hard working scientist with many wonderful ideas that turned into great inventions.
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Galileo was born during the renaissance in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564 to Giulia Ammanati, and Vincenzo Galilei having at least two sisters and one brother. Although his father was a patrician (a member of the local nobility) they had enough money for school, but were not rich. When he was about 10 years old, his family moved to Florence. Galileo began his formal education at Florence’s Vallombrosa monastery, where he studied with the Camaldolese monks who had dedicated their lives to holy service in the influential Roman Catholic Church. As Galileo would later understand, the church at this era did not care much for those who differed with, or even merely questioned, its traditions. (Kugler, 2004) In 1581, he entered the University of Pisa as a medical student, but quickly became interested in mathematics, physics, and philosophy. Against his father’s wishes, Galileo left the university in 1585, without completing his degree. (Ryan 2005)
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Galileo worked as a private mathematics tutor for a short time while dedicating most of his time studying mechanics and physics. In 1586, he wrote a short manuscript, “La bilancetta” (“The Little Balance”), which described his experimental hydrostatic balance technique for weighing objects in air and water concurrently. In 1589 Galileo was given a position as professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa. (Ryan 2005) The scientist in Galileo was thriving and reportedly began to consider the laws that govern the swing of a pendulum while observing the motions of a swinging chandelier in the town’s cathedral. (Sheehan, 2009) When Galileo ran into the disapproval of conservative scholars in Pisa he moved on to Padua where he instructed in mathematics and made all the telescopic observations of the Moon and Jupiter described in his 1610 book, Sidereus Nuncius. (“Sidereal Messenger”) (Sheehan, 2009)
Galileo later recalled the 18 years in Padua as the happiest in his life but was impatiently strong-minded, and at heart a Florentine. He had spent his teenage years in that Tuscan city and, in September 1610, returned to stay there after being appointed Philosopher and Mathematician to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Galileo went to Rome in 1611 and successfully demonstrated the telescope to the Jesuits of the Collegio Romano, finally confirmed his observations after trying for months. He returned in 1616 to meet with Cardinal Bellarmine, who cautioned him not to “hold or defend” the literal truth of the Copernican system. (Sheehan, 2009) Galileo’s greatest contribution was his use of experimentation to prove or disprove scientific theories. The Scientific Revolution started with him. It was a period when reason overcame traditional thought. His forceful personality and his conflict with religious leaders help make Galileo the most romantic figure in all of science. (Sheehan, 2009)
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Although Galileo never married, he considered himself a Florentine and traveled often to the outskirts of Florence to the Convent of San Matteo where his two daughters by his Venetian mistress Marina Gamba were sheltered. (Kugler, 2004)
His scientific accomplishments first drew acclamation and privilege — but later brought trouble with Catholic doctrine and ended in dishonor and house arrest. (Kugler, 2004) Galileo wrote the church stating that “the distances covered in equal times are as the odd numbers beginning from one.” After he was done defending himself he went back to being a great scientist. The next machine he built was a telescope that he built and observed celestial objects with. It had a magnifying power of about 40. With it he studied Saturn and the phases of Venus. (Sheehan, 2009) He also observed the sun’s spots. “I’ve never seen a more beautiful thing” he said concerning the sun. In Florence, Galileo continued to produce important scientific works. At the palatial Villa L’Ombrellino, where he lived from 1617 until 1631, he wrote Il Saggiatore (“The Assayer”), a treatise on mathematics and physics, and the Dialogue that led to his persecution. (Kugler, 2004) Summoned to Rome, and warned not to uphold it or teach it in 1632 he published a work written for the nonspecialist, Dialogo … sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo [dialogue on the two chief systems of the world. (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia) In 1633 the Inquisition convicted him of heresy and forced him to recant his support of Copernicus. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but because of his advanced age he was allowed to serve under house arrest at his villa in Arcetri outside of Florence. (Kugler, 2004)
Almost totally blind Galileo had given his brilliant thoughts to the world and his mission was complete. So on January 8, 1642 at the age of 78 Galileo died. (World of Galileo)
Conclusion
Galileo Galilei’s inquisitive attitude made him a pioneer in physics, as well as the founding father of the scientific method as he played a vital role in the Scientific Revolution. Galileo (The Father of Modern Science) had many accomplishments, discoveries, inventions, and also proved and disproved some theories by other scientists. Galileo Galilei was a hard working scientist with many wonderful ideas that turned into great inventions.
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