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Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa in 1564. ... He made Galilei return to Florence where he continued his schooling. ... Galilei used parallax arguments, which are the differences in the positions and directions of objects when viewed using for example a lens, to prove that some stars were not really close to Earth. ... Put in mind that these are the hypothesis’ that Galilei is trying to prove so in a way Galilei did not propose any hypothesis but instead has tried to back up previous hypothesis’. According to Galilei, Copernicus’ theory gave a simple and elegant explanation and was regarded to be the most sophisticated astronomical book for a long time. ... The Church believed this too and was not at all threatened by his theories until when Galilei first used a telescope to study stars among other things.
Galilei first built together his telescope for seeing Saturn in 1610 and everything seen through it appeared as three different bodies (also, instead of showing the rings of Saturn it showed them as lobes on either side of the planet). ... Most astronomers then favored the system of Brahe; however, Galilei was leaning towards the Copernican system since most of his discoveries so far were proven to be evidence or back up for the Copernican system.
Approximate Word count = 911
Approximate Pages = 3.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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