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Year Chart of Galileo Galilei
Born
Died
Residence
Field
February 15, 1564
Pisa, Italy
January 8, 1642 (aged77)
Arcetri, Italy
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Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Astronomy, Physics and
Mathematics
Institutions University of Padua
Almamater University of Pisa
Kinematics
Portrait of Galileo Galilei
Knownfor
by Giusto Sustermans (from Wikipedia)
Telescope
Solar System
Religion
Roman Catholic
Year
Event
Theory/Discovery
1564 Born in Pisa, Italy.
1581 Galileo was sent to the University of Pisa
to study medicine, discovered that he had
a talent for mathematics.
1592 Obtained the chair of mathematics at
Padua, began working on the inclined
plane and the pendulum.
1598 Believed in the truth of the Copernican
theory, as he wrote to Kepler.
1604 Began working on astronomy in order to
lecture on the new star that had appeared
that year.
1609 Heard of ther telescope while in Venice, Discovered that the Moon was not
constructed one for himself.
smooth, but mountainous and
pitted.
Discover the satellites of Jupiter,
He also used his newly invented telescope to study Saturn, observe the
to discover the satellites.
phases of Venus, and study
sunspots on the Sun.
1610 Published his telescopic discoveries in Naming them 'the Medicean stars'.
The Starry Messenger.
Published an account of his
telescopic observations of the
moons of Jupiter, using this
observation to argue in favor of
the sun-centered, Copernican
theory of the universe against the
dominant earth-centered
Ptolemaic and Aristotelian
theories.
Title page of the first edition, 1610
1611
Traveled to the Collegio Romano, Rome.
1613
Published Letters on the Sunspots,
The Sun has spot and rotated in a
claimed that the new telescopic evidence circular motion,Venus had phases,
support the Copernican theory.
just like the moon and as being
between the Sun and the Earth.
Opposition arose to the Sun-centered
solar system which Galileo supported.
1615
The Letter to The Grand Duchess
Christina.
There are conflict between the
Bible and the heliocentric
doctrine, began Galileo’s trouble
with the Catholic Church.
1623
Assayer, published by the Academy of the Universe is written in the language
Lynxes and dedicated to Barberini.
of mathematics, and its characters
are triangles, circles, and other
geometrical figures, without
which it is humanly impossible to
understand a single word of it;
without these one is wandering
about in a dark labyrinth.
1632 Dialogue on the Two Chief World
Systems, published and dedicated to the
Grand Duke.
Frontispiece and title page of the Dialogue
Comparing the Copernican
system, and the traditional
Ptolemaic system. Galileo was
convicted of "grave suspicion of
heresy" based The book was then
placed on the Index of Forbidden
Books, and caused a furor because
Galileo have gone against the
injunction not to advocate the
physical truth of Copernicus'
claim.
1633 Called before the Inquisition and was
found guilty of heresy. Galileo was
sentenced to life imprisonment in 1633.
1638
The Discourses and Mathematical
Demonstrations Relating to Two New
Sciences
1642 Died in Arcetri, Italy.
Galileo's final book and a sort of
scientific testament covering much
of his work in physics over the
preceding thirty years.
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/galileo.html