How Did Galileo Changed Western Culture

Galileo is easily known as a father of science and one of the many who changed the Western culture. He is known for climbing to the top of the Tower of Pisa while carrying two balls of different weights and dropping them. The balls hit the ground at the same time proving that Aristotle was wrong about his statement “heavier objects fall quicker than lighter object when released form the same height”. He is particularly know for discovering how the Earth moved in accordance to the sun and other planets in the solar system. He came from a noble family originally known as the Bonaiuti family. Galileo Galilei first arrived in Rome when he was twenty-three years old in the year 1587. He went there in hopes to get an appointment at the university.

In 1609 Galileo introduced a new scientific instrument, the optic tube or the spyglass. This is known today as the telescope. He got this idea when he heard about a Dutch artisan who put two lenses together and when he did this it caused the images he looked at through the lenses to be increasingly larger than they were in actual life. So Galileo took this idea and ran with it. He took to his own ways and built a similar device only much stronger and pointed it up at the sky. What he saw was unbelievable to him. Everything they has once known about the sky was suddenly wrong. The sun and the moon were nothing like they thought. The naked eye saw them as smooth, perfectly round objects made of matter that could not be altered. This couldn’t be any farther from the truth. He discovered that the moon was covered in craters and full of irregularities. The Sun was found to be covered I spots that were constantly moving across

This discovery did not sit well with the people of that time. He shared his discovery with everyone and eventually wrote a book called The Starry Messenger in 1610. This book focused more on his findings of the moons of Jupiter. A few years later he wrote a book titled The Assayer in 1623. This book is when he gained a lot of his followers. One of his biggest supporters was Pope Urban VIII. He sort made Galileo his right hand man. Years after that, in 1632, is when he wrote his book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. This is when he openly spoke about finding out the Earth not being the center of the Universe. This is when all the issues came about. He was summoned to a trail for heresy in 1633. Leading up to the trial a group of eleven theologians declared that these findings were heretical. Those who believed Galileo were said to be heretics. Shortly after the book was published the Pope sent Cardinal Robert to warn Galileo that he should let his findings go and to not speak of them anymore. He was also told that if he did not obey the warning that he would be prosecuted as a heretic. However, this warning did not stop him. He continued to teach his findings. After he refused to abandon his Copernicus theory he lost the support of Pope Urban VIII. The Pope demanded that his book was to be taken out of circulation. He was then