Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. Galileo was the first of seven children of Vincenzio Galilei, a trader and Giula Ammannati, an upper-class woman who married below her class. When Galileo was a young boy, his father moved the family moved to Florence. Galileo moved in...

Galilei, Galileo1564-1642, Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist was born in Pisa, Italy. He started PisaUniversity as a medical student in 1581, and becameprofessor of mathematics at Padua(1592-1610), where heimproved the refracting telescope (1610), and was the fi...

Known to some people as the father of modern science, Galileo impacted this field in such a way that he was put on trial for going against the Catholic Church?s beliefs, because he supported the Copernican theory that the Earth revolved around the sun. The Church?s belief was that the Earth was in ...