Galileo facts and information

1. Galileo By Astonomy Nicholls

3. Galileo went to university of Pisa

4. Studied medicine, but was forced to do so, Galileo felt his life was aimed at physics and philosophy

5. In his career he learnt about speed at which objects fall, mechanics as well as pendulums

7. Galileo’s had an outburst about his discovery of the Earth orbiting the Sun, but they didn't believe him.

8. People threatened torture and death

9. 1616 Galileo forbidden by the church to teach theories

10. In the 17th century, there were three very distinct classes

12. Galileo came up with the “Suspended lamp theory”

13. In 1602 Galileo's theory on Pendulum turned into a proof

15. Galileo made a telescope of a magnification of 3X larger

16. Later that year he made a telescope of 20X magnification

18. Equations devised Equations presented for the pendulum discovery was : Galileo tried to prove that the acceleration of gravity is a constant no matter how dense the object, through a medium. Galileo’s hypothesis: “If free falling body has an acceleration that is a constant, then a perfectly round ball on a smooth inclined plate will also have a constant, though smaller acceleration. ” Before 0.1s 0.1s After

19. Life of Galileo