Galileo galilei biography for kids
Galileo galilei biography.
Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy, on the 15th of February 1564, he died on the 8th of January 1642.
Galileo was a ground breaking astronomer, physicist, mathematician, philosopher and inventor.
Galileo galilei biography for kids
Among his inventions were telescopes, a compass and a thermometer.
Galileo enrolled to do a medical degree at the University of Pisa but never finished, instead choosing to study mathematics.
Galileo built on the work of others to create a telescope with around 3x magnification, he later improved on this to make telescopes with around 30x magnification.
With these telescopes, Galileo was able to observe the skies in ways previously not achieved.
In 1610 he made observations of 4 objects surrounding Jupiter that behaved unlike stars, these turned out to be Jupiters four largest satellite moons: Io, Callisto, Europa and Ganymede. They were later renamed the Galilean satellites in honor of Galileo himself.
The discovery of these moons was not supported by the scientific p