Galilo was the first modern astronomer that made important discoveries with the telescope. He discovered moons of jupiter, sunspots, craters and mountains on the moon and phases of venus. He was a gifted mathematician and a genius observer and experimenter. In 1609, Galilo learned of the telescope and after observing its description he made his own. Using the telescope he found craters and mountains on the moon. Galileo purposeed that the moon wasn’t smooth and it’s a perfect sphere. He made effective use of the telescope by measuring the heights of lunar mountains using their shawdows. His overall impression was that the moon was another verison of the Earth. He also made effective use of the telescope by discovering 4 moon orbiting Jupiter.
Galileo Galilei invented a telescope.This invention is very important because it could let scientist see stars,the moon and other planets and they could also study on the planet that they see too.before this invention they used glasses but if they didn't have glasses they would use eyeballs.He was born on February 15,1564. He died in January 8,1642.He died by his heart palpitations.He is from Pisa,Italy.He's A thinker because he made lots of other inventions and he had to think of how they work and how to make it work.He is carrying too, by being really nice to people.He is also one last thing which is a risk-taker in two reasons.One is he had to make all of those inventions for the whole world.Two is that he showed people his inventions
Although, Galileo did not invent the telescope, he is thought as the inventor of the telescope. Hans Lippershey was the person who invented the telescope in 1608. Galileo learned about the spyglass in 1609. He thought that learning about spyglass was so exciting and interesting. His interest of the spyglass led him to the discovery of improving the telescope. In order to discover deeper, Galileo began to experiment with making the telescope and polished the lenses of his own telescope to increase the range about eight to nine times further. Due to Galileo’s improvement of his telescope’s range, he was the first person to discover sunspots, to see the moon’s craters, and to keep on track of the phases of
Galileo has been credited with the confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter, and the observation and analysis of sunspots. He also worked in mathematics and with technology, helping to improve the military compass. Galileo was a renaissance man.
Document 3 shows how Galileo’s observations of the moon and laws of motion supported Copernicus’ heliocentric model. He discovered that the moon has craters, and is not a perfect sphere like Aristotle said. This was able to prove that Copernicus was correct. However, the Church disagreed and disliked his work. It was rejected by the Church and he was forced to recant or face execution.
Galileo was an Italian mathematician and astronomer who developed an improved telescope. He made observations the undermined established understandings of the cosmos. His discovery of Jupiter and many new stars, suggested a cosmos far larger than the finite universe of traditional astronomy. He published his remarkable findings in a book titled The Starry Messenger. (Ways of the World, 557-559)
Galileo(1564-1642) Made the telescope better and he used the telescope to observe planets, and he proves kepler’s theory, saw the imperfection of planets, and saw a storm on a planet also saw craters.
Scientifically, Galileo will be remembered for invention of the telescope, which allowed astronomers, sailors and other view the heavens and seas, which fed their own theories. He used his own invention to discover the four moons of Jupiter, the mountains and craters of the moon, and sunspots. His work on falling objects led to gravitational studies and mathematical theorems which are on a basic level, physics. Experimentation was used as a means to prove the laws of science along with the mathematical theories. Math, according to Galileo, was the only infallible form of logic. If a mathematical law could be formed from an event, then it was a logical, rational event. His breaking from the Catholic Church, voicing his findings and staying with his convictions broke the traditional way of thinking that the Church was the end all and be all of all things. In the end, he was proven right for most of his beliefs and vindicated for his suppression.
Dear Mr. Pope, My names is Ivan Cortes and the Scientist name is Galileo galilei his theory is that he was the first one to make a telescope to see the space and the moon and all the planted in space he found like mountain and valley and the surface of the moon and sunspot and the biggest moon ever also called as Jupiter and the phases of the planet Venus
Instead, Galileo improved the magnification of the spyglass and used it to look at the sky, creating the telescope. At that time, the spyglass could only magnify objects to three times their original size. Galileo refined the lens, allowing it to magnify things up to first eight, then later, in 1610, 30 times their original size. By using this telescope, he was able to observe the movement of objects in the sky, such as stars and planets, that supported the Copernicus’s theory of heliocentrism - that the sun was the center of the universe. He also found that the moon was not completely smooth, as most people at the time assumed it would be. Instead, it had was bumpy and had hills and
Galileo's Discovered Jupiter's and it’s moons on January 7th, 1610 Galileo pointed his home-built telescope towards Jupiter, and saw two tiny stars to the east of Jupiter, and one to the west, all in a tight straight line along the ecliptic ( great circle on the celestial sphere representing the sun's apparent path during the year ) path with Jupiter itself but he was not shure. The next evening, almost on a whim, Galileo decided to check Jupiter again just to verify that the three "fixed stars" lay to the east of Jupiter, since he knew that the planet was moving westward
In his letter written in 1597 to Johannes Kepler, he states, “I accepted the view of Copernicus many years ago. And from this standpoint I have discovered many natural phenomena, which cannot be explained on the basis of the more commonly accepted hypothesis [that the Earth is the center of the Universe]”(9). In other words, Galileo also accepted the idea of the heliocentric view of the universe and that it is a better model of the universe that can explain phenomenon that could not necessarily be explained with the geocentric view. With his invention of a more powerful telescope, observation of a supernova, and discovery of the four moons of Jupiter, Galileo further supported and extended Copernicus’ theory of the heliocentric view of the
The use of the telescope led him to discover new characteristics of space and the solar system. He discovered Jupiter’s four largest moons and the rings of Saturn. He also discovered that the Milky Way galaxy is comprised of stars. The observation of mountains on the moon was made by Galileo as well. He also made numerous discoveries within these discoveries.
Galileo’s observational discoveries in astronomy allowed for the basis to begin discrediting the old ideas in favor of a new understanding of the universe. The longstanding way of thought in astronomy favored a spherically rotating universe around the Earth with unchanging and perfectly symmetrical constellations and planets. The contemporaries of Galileo believed, for example, that the moon had the face of a shiny, polished sphere, whereas Galileo showed that the surface of the moon to be imperfect with rough mountainous areas along with deep valleys (or “seas” as he called them) marked with dark sports (Frova 162). This surface very much paralleled the rough surface of the Earth (meaning that Earth’s surface was not unique). Also with his improved telescope, Galileo was capable of viewing the stars with much more clarity. Galileo discovered newly formed stars and star clusters, which challenged the Aristotelian philosophy of an ageless universe. Additionally, Galileo observed four of Jupiter’s largest moons orbiting around the planet (Frova 179). His observations of Jupiter’s satellites did not agree with the idea that all heavenly bodies must rotate around a central Earth. Finally, and arguably most important, Galileo showed Venus’s phases and
In 1609, Galileo Galilei, using “spyglass” which allowed one to see things closer than they appeared, made an early version of the telescope. With it, he observed the skies in a way no one had before. He discovered the moon isn’t perfectly globular, it has craters, the Sun has sunspots, Venus orbits the Sun (contrary to widespread belief in his time), and then he observed four “stars” around Jupiter (“Our Solar System”). Within
Through practice Galileo became good to observe the stars and were able to identify craters on the moon.