1564-1642
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The Little Balance (1586)
On Motion (1590)[136]
Mechanics (ca. 1600)
The Starry Messenger (1610; in Latin, Sidereus Nuncius)
Discourse on Floating Bodies (1612)
Letters on Sunspots (1613)
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615; published in 1636)
Discourse on the Tides (1616; in Italian, Discorso del flusso e reflusso del mare)
Discourse on the Comets (1619; in Italian, Discorso Delle Comete)
The Assayer (1623; in Italian, Il Saggiatore)
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632; in Italian Dialogo dei
due massimi sistemi del mondo)
 Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New
Sciences (1638; in Italian, Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, intorno a due
nuove scienze)
Discoveries & Inventions
 the law of the pendulum: This later was used to
regulate clocks
 Telescope: This took many years to create but with this
invention I was able to discover what you all know to
be called sunspots. These sunspots showed that the
Sun is on an axis and with that discovery I was able to
discover that the Earth is on an axis as well. This
invention also made the discovery of Jupiter's moons,
that Venus went through phases
Discoveries & Inventions
(Continued)
 Law of Inertia: Most objects that are in a state of
motion do Not stay in that state of motion.
 Along with the telescope I invented the thermometer
and magnets
Tower Of Pisa
 I proved Aristotle's law of nature, that heavier objects
fall faster than lighter objects to be false.
Bibliography
 http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventors/a/Galileo_Galilei.htm
 Galileo Galilei
 Biography of Galileo Galilei
 By Mary Bellis,
 http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/galileo.htmlGalileo: the
Telescope &
 the Laws of Dynamics
 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/Galileo Galilei
 First published Fri Mar 4, 2005; substantive revision Thu May 21, 2009
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei