Galileo biography presentation

Galileo Galilei

By: Dominic, Jeanie, Lorea, Victoria, & Zauna

Facts about Galileo - Dominic

• Galileo was a groundbreaking astronomer, physicist, mathematician, philosopher and inventor.

  Among his inventions were telescopes, a compass and a thermometer.�

• Galileo enrolled to medical school at the University of Pisa but never finished, instead choosing to study mathematics.

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Opinions about Galileo - Dominic

• I think that Galileo is interesting because he changed the way we observe the universe.�
• Galileo believed in the heliocentric theory, which means he believed that Earth revolves around the sun at the center of the solar system.

This portrait of Galileo was painted by Justus Sustermans in 1636.

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Facts about Galileo - Jeanie

• When Galileo was 49 years old, he published Letters on Sunspots.

  In the book, he established the imperfections of the heavens and described dark patches on the sun’s surface (sunspots).

• After he di