Galileo Accomplishments

Galileo was an Italian scientist and scholar that made pioneering observations that laid the foundation for modern physics and astronomy. He made a point of saying that you have to do more than just think something is true, you have to do it to prove it. With this being one of his principles he made many contradictions of thee only theories at the time, Artistole’s mostly. With this he made some enemies but also tried to be true to his Catholic beliefs. His, at the time, bizarre experiments and methods of testing theories paved the way for modern science today. This is one of many reasons he is known to so many as the “Father of Modern Science”.
Galileo was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy. He was the first of six children born to Vincenzo Galilei, a well know musician and music theorist, and Giulia Ammannati. In 1574, the family moved to Florence.
This intrigued him enough that he soon developed his own. Shortly after he had created his telescope, he had demonstrated to the Venetian merchants as a way of spotting ships. Galileo realized that this telescope could be used for more than seeing beyond the eye on Earth that he explored the sky with his telescope as well. Nearly a year later Galileo published a small booklet called The Starry Messenger. This booklet revealed his discoveries with his telescope thus far. These would include that the moon was not flat and smooth, but a sphere with mountains and craters. (http://www.biography.com/people/galileo-9305220#controversial-findings). He also found Venus had phases like the moon. This discovery insisted that Venus rotated around the Sun. He then discovered Jupiter had revolving moons, this insisted that the moons of Jupiter revolved around Jupiter. With Galieo’s telescope, his began to build an array of evidence supporting the Copernican theory. In doing so, he also found more evidence contradicting Artistotle and the