Galileo met a Venetian woman named Marina Gamba, who bore him three children: Virginia and Livia, and Vincenzo. Galileo and Marina Gamba never officially got married, possibly due to the fact that his illegitimate children would endanger his social status. As his daughters grew older, he started getting concerned that they wouldn't marry well so he decided to send them to a convent. As time went on and they became nuns, both of his daughters decided to change their names, from Virginia to Maria Celeste and Livia to Sister Arcangela. Maria Celeste hasn’t stopped keeping contact with Galileo. She often encouraged him …show more content…
For example, In Venice, a toy telescope was invented. Galileo took that concept and tried creating it into a useful device. Galileo's improved version of the telescope revolutionized astronomy. Upon doing so, it has "Let him observe and describe the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, the phases of Venus, sunspots and the rugged lunar surface" (History.com, 2010). Galileo also discovered that the earth was the one revolving around the sun each year and revolved on its axis each day. He immediately wrote out a paper outlining his discoveries, referred to as “Siderius Nuncius” (“The Starry