Galileo Galilei Essay -- The Tower of Pisa, On Motion

Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei was born in the City of Pisa on February 15, 1564. Sir Galileo is the oldest out of his seven siblings (Hightower 10-11). The father of his, is a musician and a wool trader (Galileo Galilei par 1-3). As a boy he enjoyed music and painting. He was very intelligent for this age and he constructed mechanical toys for his bear merriment (Hightower 10-11). His studies started at a Jesuit Monastery about at age eleven. By the time of age seven-teen he told his father that he wanted to be a monk. Due to his fathers wishes he went to aesculapian school, taken out because he didnt want Galileo as a monk (Galileo Galilei par 1-3). While in medical school he did poorly and thought his classes were boring. Later he dropped out and studied science and math with many large number (Lauber par 3-4). Then he studied much more objects in his lifetime and loved to learn (Hightower 10-14). Soon he achieved this college education but didnt get a dot (Galileo Galilei par 1-3). In the time when he was studying medicine, he made a very important science discovery that started his career. One day at church service on Sunday he looked up at a lamp and the lamp was degenerateing on a long cord back and forth. Its swing was very regular and he utilise his own pulse to measure the sing. He noticed even as the swing grew shorter the amount of time for a single was the same. Later he went home and conducted many experiments with different lengths and weights. Then he concluded that the string length affected the swing. Soon he created the pendulum and used the same principle to make a pulsilogia which is a device that measures your pulse (Hightower 17-20). Galileos success didnt stop there. Just as like many other people Gal... ...o studied magnetism and perfected the compound microscope (Lauber 9-14). Galileo Galilei didnt stop with astronomy after the Pope made him stop and later he was put under erect arrest for this. While under house arrest he di ed and was forgiven much later about this astronomy work by another Pope in the future which was emend. As a lifetime being a scientist he linked physics and astronomy with math, made a book of freedom of the scientific inquiry called Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences, and correctly defined uniform acceleration. He also set forth laws of falling bodies, devolved the mathematical theory of roquette motion, expressed numerous ideas about sound, heat, and light, the relation of mathematics to physics, role of experiment, and the problems of infinite signals in analysis of matter and motion (Drake par 1).