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5 giorni fa · Before his name was given to a satellite system, a rocket, and a Star Trek shuttle, before he'd been branded a martyr for science, a second Socrates or a heretic; before being lauded for inventing modern mechanics, astronomy and cosmology, he spent many years as an under-paid university professor.
10 giu 2024 · Galileo, the brilliant Italian polymath, revolutionized our understanding of the universe through his groundbreaking discoveries in astronomy and contributions to scientific methodology.
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- Galileo was a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and stren...
- Galileo invented an early type of thermometer. Although he did not invent the telescope, he made significant improvements to it that enabled astron...
- In 1610 Galileo discovered the four biggest moons of Jupiter (now called the Galilean moons) and the rings of Saturn.
- For his heresy in claiming that Earth orbits the Sun, Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Roman Catholic Church in 1633. He was not t...
- Galileo influenced scientists for decades to come, not least in his willingness to stand up to the church to defend his findings. His improvements...
2 giorni fa · Galileo has been called the father of observational astronomy, modern-era classical physics, the scientific method, and modern science. Galileo studied speed and velocity, gravity and free fall, the principle of relativity, inertia, projectile motion and also worked in applied science and technology, describing the properties of the ...
10 giu 2024 · In the fall of 1609 Galileo began observing the heavens with instruments that magnified up to 20 times. In December he drew the Moon ’s phases as seen through the telescope, showing that the Moon’s surface is not smooth, as had been thought, but is rough and uneven.
25 giu 2024 · Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei – universally known just by his Christian name Galileo – was an astronomer, physicist and mathematician whose experiments revolutionised science and laid the foundations of modern physics.
10 giu 2024 · Galileo - Astronomy, Physics, Mathematics: Galileo’s increasingly overt Copernicanism began to cause trouble for him. In 1613 he wrote a letter to his student Benedetto Castelli (1577–1644) in Pisa about the problem of squaring the Copernican theory with certain biblical passages.
6 giu 2024 · The results prove that GENESIS and Galileo joint orbit and clock determination substantially improves Galileo orbits, satellite clocks, and even ground-based clocks of GNSS receivers tracking Galileo satellites.
