Early Life/ Family Life
Discoveries
Inventions
The Telescope
100
Pisa, Italy
What is birthplace?
100
study of time intervals led to the development of this idea
What is pendulum clock?
100
his most famous invention
What is the telescope?
100
created a telescope that could magnify objects up to...
What is twenty times?
200
Galileo first studied this at the University of Pisa
What is medicine?
200
the title of the book that he wrote down all of his discoveries about motion
What is De Moto?
200
device that raised water using only one horse
What is a pump?
200
his discoveries with his telescope proved the earth and other planets revolve around the sun
What is Copernican system?
300
Galileo's favorite subject in school
What is mathematics?
300
earliest work involving moving objects
What is forces?
300
"The Little Balance"
What is hydrostatic balance?
300
discovered dark areas of regular shape on the surface of the sun
What are sunspots?
400
number of children he had
What is three?
400
his great work that is one of the foundations of modern physics
What is Two New Sciences?
400
proportional compass that had many useful scales engraved on its legs and could be used for a variety of purposes
What is a sector?
400
the planet that Galileo observed four satellites
What is Jupiter?
500
teaches mathematical subjects here
What is University of Pisa?
500
by varying the ball's horizontal velocity and vertical drop, he was able to determine that this is the path of a projectile
What is parabolic?
500
a primitive thermometer
What is a thermoscope?
500
verified the phases of this planet
What is Venus?
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