Galileo, Pasteur, And Lavoisier: Galileo Galilei

Galileo, Pasteur, and Lavoisier. Each of these individuals changed and fostered the field of science, but changed our way of life in modern times. While each individual did varying things of equal importance to how we live our lives today. Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa circa 1564 as the first child of Vincenzio Galilei. His father was both a textile merchant and talented musician, which provided an above-average standard of living of the time. He received his initial education from monks in a local monastery and would later attend the University of Pisa as a medical student. While taking a mathematics course, he became enamored with the subject, and would later switch his field of study to physical science. Sometime later, he would invent a hydrostatic balance, a tool that made him respected amongst the prominent mathematicians and scientists in Pisa and Italy. Because of this, he would gain a teaching position at the University of Pisa in 1589, despite Galileo having no degree. In 1592, he would move to the University of Padua in Venice where he found a much larger salary. He never really adjusted to the life of a

In 1843, he would attend the prestigious school Ecole Nomale Superieure. In 1847, Pasteur received his doctorate in physics and chemistry, the follow year he took the position of professor of chemistry at the University of Strasbourg. In 1854 he became dean of the science faculty at the University of Lille, where he began to study the fermentation of milk and alcohol. By attempting to find where microbes responsible for fermentation originate and questioning how the agents responsible for fermentation work, he examined an unanswered question that could explain the origins of life without God, known as spontaneous generation, the theory that living organisms arise from nonliving matter. Pasteur disapproved of this