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Date of birth?
Feb. 15, 1564
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What did his dad want him to be?
Doctor
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What is Galileo's Paradox?
That each number is an exact square root of one perfect Square
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Never really interested in medicine, he discovered he had a talent for mathematics. In 1585, he persuaded his father to ler him leace the university. What did he have a talent for?
He had a talent for math
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Galileo became convinced of the theory that all the planets revolve around the ___
Sun
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What year did Galileo die?
1642
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What did he study at the University of Pisa?
Medicine and the Philosophy of Aristotle
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Galileo discoverd the law of falling _____. *Fill the blank*
The law of falling Bodies
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In 1609, while still at Padua, Galileo built his first telescope. Turning it to the sky, he saw clear evidence that many of Aristotle's and Ptolemy's vlaims about the heavens were false. Who's claims were false?
Aristotle and Ptolelmy's
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In his first book Galileo shows how the Copernican theory is more _______ than the Aristotelain theory
Superior
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What year was he sent to the University of Pisa?
1581
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What University did his dad send him to?
University of Pisa
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Galileo discoverd the law of the Pendul.... *Finish the word*
Pendulum
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In 1610, Cosimo de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, named Galileo his personal mathematician. This position brought Galileo back to Florence, where he continued his studies of the heavens. Cosimo de Medici made Galileo his personal what?
His personal mathematician.
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What 2 laws did Galileo discover?
law of falling bodies and the law of the pendulum
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When did he become a Professor at the University of Pisa?
1589
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When did Galileo write his first book?
1632
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What did Galileo Discover about the moon?
That the moon is actually mountainous and pitted.
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Galileo observed that pendulums of equal length swing at the same rate whether their arcs are large or small. Modern measuring instruments show that the rate is actually somewhat greater if the arc is large. What did Galileo observe about the penulums
That pendulums of equal length swing at the same rate whether their arcs are large or small
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What was Galileo?
An Italian astronomer and physicist
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When did he publish his first book?
1632
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Where did he die?
In a villa outside of Florence, Italy
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What did the Hydrostatic balance do?
was used to find specific gravity of objects by weighing them in water
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Because of Galileo's advanced age and poor health, the church allowed him to serve his imprisonment under house arrest in a villa outside Florence. There he passed the reminder of his years in relative isolation, eventually becoming blind. Where was his imprisonment?
In a villa outside of Florence
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What did the church force him to do?
Forced him to withdraw his statement about the Copernican theory