Bezzuoli galileo biography wikipedia

He was born in the city of Pisa , then part of the Duchy of Florence.

Giuseppe Bezzuoli (28 November – 13 September ) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical and Romantic periods.

Galileo studied speed and velocity , gravity and free fall , the principle of relativity , inertia , projectile motion and also worked in applied science and technology, describing the properties of the pendulum and " hydrostatic balances". He was one of the earliest Renaissance developers of the thermoscope [ 9 ] and the inventor of various military compasses.

With an improved telescope he built, he observed the stars of the Milky Way , the phases of Venus , the four largest satellites of Jupiter , Saturn's rings , lunar craters and sunspots. He also built an early microscope. Galileo's championing of Copernican heliocentrism was met with opposition from within the Catholic Church and from some astronomers.

The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in , which concluded that his opinions contradicted accepted Biblical interpretations. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest. Galileo was born in Pisa then part of the Duchy of Florence on 15 February , [ 16 ] the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei , a leading lutenist , composer, and music theorist , and Giulia Ammannati , the daughter of a prominent merchant, who had married two years earlier in , when he was 42, and she was Galileo became an accomplished lutenist himself and would have learned early from his father a skepticism for established authority.

Three of Galileo's five siblings survived infancy. The youngest, Michelangelo or Michelagnolo , also became a lutenist and composer who added to Galileo's financial burdens for the rest of his life. Michelangelo also occasionally had to borrow funds from Galileo to support his musical endeavours and excursions. These financial burdens may have contributed to Galileo's early desire to develop inventions that would bring him additional income.

When Galileo Galilei was eight, his family moved to Florence , but he was left under the care of Muzio Tedaldi for two years. When Galileo was ten, he left Pisa to join his family in Florence, where he came under the tutelage of Jacopo Borghini. Galileo tended to refer to himself only by his first name.