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2020-09-29
- Galileo presentation by Debbie and Ron
- Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher
- Father of Observational Astronomy, Father of Physics, Father of Scientific Method, Father of Modern science
- Contributions
- Scientific method
- Encouraged mathematical language
- Astronomy
- Engineering
- The Little Balance
- Accurately weigh solids in air and water
- Physics
- Law of falling bodies
- Mathematics
- Military compass
- Telescope
- Means far seeing
- Increased magnification 8x of what we could see
- Published in Starry Messenger
- In Griffiths Observatory
- Discoveries with the telescope
- Lunar surface (the Moon)
- Uneven lunar surface
- Moons of Jupiter
- Originally thought they were stars
- Didn't follow same pattern as other stars
- Phases of Venus
- Similar to phases of the Moon
- Saturn's rings
- Thought they looked like moons
- Noticed they would appear/disappear
- Sunspots
- Stars of the Milky Way galaxy
- Lunar surface (the Moon)
- Inventions
- Life
- Originally considered priesthood
- Dropped out of college
- Was imprisoned by the church when he opposed the geocentric model
- Imprisoned for life
- Had three daughters who became nuns
- Any time he did experiments with time, he used his pulse
- Scientific method
- Geo/helio presentation by Graham and Ben
- Geocentric model
- Heliocentric model
- Copernicus
- Banned by the church until 1758