How Did Galileo Galilei Changed Our Lives

Galileo-Galilei has changed our lives in so many ways. In this paper you will learn many things you may not have known. The question is how. Galileo's parents were Vincenzo Galilei and Guilia Ammannati. His father was born in Florence in 1520 in Santa Maria, a Monte in the Arno Valley. He had many profesions: music teacher, a flute player, a lutenist, composer, and music theorist by profession. He studied music in Venice. Galileo's mother was born in Pescia in. Her family settled in Pisa around 1536. She was born in 1538 and had three sisters and one brother. Her father was a lumber merchant, and he died before she ( Guilia Ammannati ) was married ( July 5, 1562 ). Once Vincenzo died Guilia put all of the pressure of supporting the family

Both the incidents made Galileo realize what he really wanted to do, and he finally convinced his father to allow him to study mathematics and natural philosophy. Financial difficulties cut Galileo’s education short at the university. He left in 1585, before earning his degree. Galileo continued to study mathematics, he got money from minor teaching positions. During this time he began his two-decade study on objects in motion and published The Little Balance, describing the hydrostatic ( relating to or denoting the equilibrium of liquids and the pressure exerted by liquid at rest ) principles of weighing small quantities, this brought him a little bit of fame. This also earned him a teaching postition at the University of Pisa, in 1589. There Galileo conducted his experiments with falling objects and produced his manuscript Du Motu (On Motion), this was a departure from Aristotelian views about motion and falling objects. Galileo became very arrogant, and his criticisms of Aristotle left him isolated from his colleagues. In 1592, his contract with the University of Pisa was not