I. Galileo Galilei's Life
==> Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy on the 15th of February in 1564
==> He was the first of six children born to Vincenzo Galilei and Giulia Ammanati
==> With schooling Galileo became fluent in both Latin and Greek, as well as his native Italian.
==> Galileo was pressured to go into medicine by his father, although he probably would have preferred to be a painter.
==> Galileo began studying medicine at the University of Pisa in 1581, but soon thereafter switched to mathematics, which he believed was his true calling.
==> After he had studied mathematics in great depth he taught the subject in Florence and Siena
II. Galileo and 16th/17th Century Politics
==> Galileo strongly believed in the