Galileo

Galileo Galilei. (1564 - 1642). Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, and polymath.

Noteworthy

• Father of observational astronomy.
• Scientific Method.
• Engineering.
• Milky Way.
• Saturn's rings.
• Sunspots.
• Moon craters.
• Improved telescopes.
• Invented microscope.
• Champion of championing of Copernican heliocentrism.

Controversies

• Heliocentrism. Opposed by the Catholic Church. Put under house arrest.
• Nature of comets. Opposed by Father Orazio Grassi, professor of mathematics at the Jesuit Collegio Romano.

See Also

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
• Galileo_quotes