Galileo's
Early
Life
,
Education
and
Experiments
.
Galileo
Galilei
____________________
born
in
Pisa
in
1564
,
the
first
of
six
children
of
Vincenzo
Galilei
,
a
musician
and
scholar
.
In
1581
he
entered
the
University
of
____________________
to
study
medicine
,
but
was
soon
____________________
by
____________________
.
In
1583
he
made
his
first
important
discovery
,
describing
the
rules
that
govern
the
motion
of
____________________
.
Did
You
Know
?
After
being
forced
during
his
trial
to
admit
that
the
Earth
was
the
____________________
center
of
the
____________________
,
Galileo
allegedly
muttered
(
"
Yet
it
moves
!
"
)
.
The
first
direct
attribution
of
____________________
quote
to
Galileo
dates
to
____________________
years
after
the
trial
,
though
it
appears
on
a
wall
behind
him
in
a
1634
Spanish
painting
____________________
by
one
of
Galileo's
friends
.
From
1589
to
1610
,
Galileo
was
chair
of
mathematics
at
the
universities
of
Pisa
and
then
Padua
.
During
those
years
he
performed
the
experiments
with
falling
bodies
that
made
his
most
significant
contribution
to
physics
.
Galileo
,
Telescopes
and
the
____________________
Court
In
1609
Galileo
built
his
first
telescope
,
improving
upon
a
____________________
design
.
In
January
of
1610
he
discovered
four
new
?
stars
?
orbiting
____________________
?
the
planet's
four
largest
____________________
.
He
published
a
____________________
treatise
outlining
his
discoveries
,
?
Siderius
Nuncius
(
?
The
Starry
____________________
?
)
,
which
also
contained
observations
of
the
moon's
____________________
and
descriptions
of
a
____________________
of
new
stars
in
the
____________________
____________________
.
In
an
attempt
to
gain
favor
with
the
l
grand
duke
of
Tuscany
,
Cosimo
,
he
suggested
Jupiter's
____________________
be
called
the
?
Medician
____________________
.
