1. Galileo

2. Galileo Galilei Born 1564 in Pisa, Italy Inventor & scientist
Discovered the pendulum (later used in clocks)
Father of Science

3. Pisa Italy Red Line around Italy is animated to appear on mouse click.
Point out
London (England),
Paris (France),
Holland (where the Dutch people live),
Germany,
Spain,
Switzerland,
Africa
red star is: Pisa, Italy (where Galileo was born)

4. Galileo’s Telescope Not the first to invent the telescope (1608)
Improved the telescope so that his magnified 20x’s more
First to use the telescope to study the skies

5. Galileo’s Telescope
In 1610, writings described the celestial sights he saw with his new telescope
Observations included:
Spots on the Sun
Craters on the moon
Milky Way was composed of stars
Phases of Venus
Moons of Jupiter

6. Galileo’s Ideas
Observed the sun same time every day and charted sun spots
Evidence that proved the Earth revolves around the Sun and was not the center of the universe
Ideas thought to go against the teachings of the Bible

7. Catholic Church
Galileo found guilty of breaching the Inquisition (church court) in 1616 and sentenced to lifelong imprisonment
Allowed house arrest rather than imprisonment until his death in 1642.

8. Galileo Mission
1989, NASA launched spacecraft “Galileo” to study Jupiter.
Galileo arrived at Jupiter in December 1995.
In 1992, the Vatican formally and publicly cleared Galileo of any wrongdoing.