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Galileo Galilei
1. Why is this person important?
Galileo was known as the father of science. He was a physicist who invented the telescope and the thermometer, things that we still use to this day (only more modern). He also helped start the scientific Revolution.
2. Why did you choose this person? How does her/his life relate to you?
I chose Galileo because when I was younger me and my father would stargaze together. It was a bonding experience between the two of us. We would look through a telescope and figure out where the big dipper was or what the phases of the moon where. I also choose him because he was one of the starters of the Scientific Revolution the very begining of the changes to come. Come on he was even thrown in jail because of what he did, for what he stood by.
If Galileo had never existed we wouldn't have what we do today. The thermometer helps us when we are suffering from sickness helps us know if we have a fever or not or tells us how warm or cold it is outside. If we didn't have a telescope what would astronomers do? How would we know if there was a meteor headed for earth? If he never existed the scientific revolution might not have gotten off of the ground. He helped start it and helped make the world what it is now, more technology more ways of dealing with problems we face everyday.
4. If you could meet that person, what would you ask her/him?
If I could meet Galileo I would ask him what it was like to live in that time period (1564-1642). How was it to help start the Scientific Revolution...did he have any fears? What about when he was arrested by the Catholic Church? (If you don't know he was arrested because they thought he was in suspicion of heresy and was kept under house arrest the rest of his life). What was it like to be who he was, to think the way he did to try and speak out for what he believed in knowing people would fight back. That a higher authority was held over him that could change fate in a matter of seconds those are my questions for him.
I chose Galileo because when I was younger me and my father would stargaze together. It was a bonding experience between the two of us. We would look through a telescope and figure out where the big dipper was or what the phases of the moon where. I also choose him because he was one of the starters of the Scientific Revolution the very begining of the changes to come. Come on he was even thrown in jail because of what he did, for what he stood by.
3. If she/he had never existed, would the world be different from how we know it now? Why?
If Galileo had never existed we wouldn't have what we do today. The thermometer helps us when we are suffering from sickness helps us know if we have a fever or not or tells us how warm or cold it is outside. If we didn't have a telescope what would astronomers do? How would we know if there was a meteor headed for earth? If he never existed the scientific revolution might not have gotten off of the ground. He helped start it and helped make the world what it is now, more technology more ways of dealing with problems we face everyday.
If I could meet Galileo I would ask him what it was like to live in that time period (1564-1642). How was it to help start the Scientific Revolution...did he have any fears? What about when he was arrested by the Catholic Church? (If you don't know he was arrested because they thought he was in suspicion of heresy and was kept under house arrest the rest of his life). What was it like to be who he was, to think the way he did to try and speak out for what he believed in knowing people would fight back. That a higher authority was held over him that could change fate in a matter of seconds those are my questions for him.
5.Do you think the fact this person was Italian played a role in his/her achievement?
I dont think that just because Galileo was Italian meant anything to his achievement. It could have been any person in his field to discover the thermometer or the telescope. He just happened to be Italian and that's just who he was. I think it was just the way he was, a man who pushed himself to find the truth and pushed for people to realize that there is more out there then what a few people tell you (Ex. The Catholic Church at the time).
I dont think that just because Galileo was Italian meant anything to his achievement. It could have been any person in his field to discover the thermometer or the telescope. He just happened to be Italian and that's just who he was. I think it was just the way he was, a man who pushed himself to find the truth and pushed for people to realize that there is more out there then what a few people tell you (Ex. The Catholic Church at the time).
Very good, Julie. And let me add Galileo did something more than just inventing/improving the telescope and the thermometer: he realized the Earth was revolving around the sun and not the opposite. This is why he was thrown in jail, because he was denying the idea the Earth, God's major creation, was the center of the universe. Quite a big achievement, don't you think?
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