how does galileo galilei work improved humanity's knowledge?

Question

he was a famous italian scientist of the 1600's he invented the telescope and discovered that the sun and other planets revolved around the earth.

Answer 1

Galileo did not invent the telescope. That honor is usually assigned to Hans Lippershey (or Lipperhey), a Dutch spectacle maker, though his patent claim was disputed at the time (1608). Galileo heard about this and built his own.

Galileo was the first person to turn his telescope to the sky and report what he found there. Much of what he found - objects orbiting Jupiter, spots on the Sun, mountains on the Moon, phases of Venus - was in conflict with the accepted Aristotelian cosmology of the time which said that the heavens were perfect and unchanging and it all revolved around the Earth. His support of the heliocentric system of Copernicus got him into trouble with the Catholic Church and he lived out his last years under house arrest.

Galileo kick-started modern science by being willing to doubt the authority of Aristotle and other accepted thinkers and look instead to what he could find out on his own by experimentation. This led him to find, for example, that all objects fell at the same rate, and that they accelerated as they fell. Aristotle had claimed that objects fell at a speed in proportion to their weight, an assertion that Galileo may or may not have refuted with an experiment at the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Answer 2

Copernicus discovered that the earth revolved around the sun, not Galileo. The telescope had also already been invented before Galileo's time although he did pioneer some improvements. Galileo was mainly famous for his "Discourse On Two New Sciences" and his fight with the Roman Catholic Church, which sat the tenor for pretty much all discussions between religion and science to this day.

Answer 3

Actually, Galileo neither "invented" the telescope nor "discovered" that the sun is at the center of the solar system. Two very common misconceptions about the man and his life.

The invention of the telescope is credited to, Hans Lippershay, a Dutch spectacle maker...though it is likely that the device was independantly "invented" several times by spectacle makers in different places.

And it was Johannes Kepler who actually proved that the planets orbit the sun. Galileo suspected this was the case along with several of his contemporaries...but he never actually proved it. (Nor did Copernicus.)

Answer 4

Galileo Galilei was the inventor of the telescope, and he also was imprisoned and tortured for his belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun. He was one of the first people to stand for science, at the beginning of the Renaissance period, and many scientists have taken his work and improved on it.
He also discovered the 4 major satellites of Jupiter, known as the Galilean satellites.
He did the famous gravity experiment from the tower of Pisa, to show that no matter what the weight/density of two objects they fall on the ground simultaneously.
He is called by many the father of modern astronomy; the father of science; the father of physics. Many famous scientists like Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein have paid tribute in such ways to Galileo.
Galileo opened the doors to modern science.

Answer 5

History tells us that there has many terrible things done by men in the name of Jesus. However we must ask ourselves if these things that were done were actually God's will. To be honest most of these things were motivated by the twisted hearts of men and their actions actually broke the heart of the God the claimed to be serving. Galileo may very well have been wronged by the church but what would be the point of apologizing to a man who has been dead for over three hundred years? Can any healing come from doing this? I do not think so but if you need an apologized let me be the the first say that i am sorry that the church has done many things in the past have hurt people. On behave of the body of Christ I ask that you might forgive us. The church is filled with men and men fail, fall short, and unfortunatley hurt people but the God that we serve never does these things. He loves all people with a perfectly love that my mere words are insufficent to explain. Jesus loves you. Before I close I want to know if you have ever heard of the anthropic principle. To be fair to the ancient church scientists today have ever inlcreasingly grabbed onto this anthropic principle. This principle simply points out that not only the earth but the entire universe seems to be crafted with sustaining of life on earth as its purpose. So in a way earth seems to be the center of the universe. Praise Jesus.

Answer 6

He obviously hasn't improved your God awful grammar. How has Galileo Galilei's work improved humanity's knowledge is how it should be. And your facts are super wrong. He proposed that the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun (against the church's stance that the Earth was the center of the universe), Your ignorance pains me.

Answer 7

Considerably. What they do with it is another story. I laugh when I think of the grant he got to find out if objects falling from a particular height are affected by their mass while falling. Basically - he got some money to theoretically throw furniture off a tall tower. I'd love to see how the townies took to this. On your way to work in the rope factory and you hear a ka boom and several yards behind you lands an armoire or something! Big Stuff!

Answer 8

Wrong, he did NOT invent the telescope (Kopernikus did) and he did NOT discover sthe sun and other olanets revolve around the earth but the planets revolve around the sun and the earth rotating ...