Galileo Galilei
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The work of Galileo Galilei challenged the ideas of geocentrism and the Ptolomaic system which had originated with the Greek pagan Ptolemy and had been adopted by the European church as dogma.
He was a theist, a Christian, and a Catholic; however, his research led him into a great deal of conflict with established Church dogmas. He famously wrote in a letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany in 1615: "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use." [1]
Galileo studied at the University of Pisa as a mathematician from 1589 to 1592. He went to the University of Padua in 1592 and stayed there until 1610. While at Padua, he studied mechanics. He built the thermoscope, the geometric and military compass, and the water-lifting machine. Then, after he was done at Padua, he was appointed as the mathematician and philosopher for the Grand Duke of Tuscany (1610). There, he studied Saturn and Venus, using the telescope that he created in 1609.
In 1611, he went to Rome to study sunspots at Accademia dei Lincei after joining. In 1612, many started to doubt the Copernican theories, which Galileo supported. Then, in 1614, a man named Father Tommaso Caccini told everyone that Galileo was wrong for supporting the Copernican theories. Galileo went to Rome to defend himself, but in 1616 Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino gave Galileo an admonition to stop teaching the Copernican theory, saying it went against the Holy Scripture.
In 1624, he invented the first mircoscope. After that, he went to Rome in 1630 to get permission to publish his newest work: Dialogo dei Massimi Sistemi (Dialogue on the Great World Systems). It got published in Florence in 1632, but he was forced to go to Rome to defend himself yet again, and was told to abjure. In 1633, he was allowed to go to his villa in Arcetri. His daughter died in 1634. In 1638, Galileo published the Discorsi e dimostrazioni intorno a due nuove Scienze (Discourses and demonstrations on two new Sciences) in Leiden. Galileo died in his villa on January 8, 1642.
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