Renaissance View of the Universe

THE RENAISSANCE VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE Through history people have been very interested in what lay above them. Every night as the people would go to sleep they would look up and wonder, what are those white dots up there? Some of the astrologers who would observe the night sky knowing that the white dots are planets and stars were convinced that the planets had an influence on their people, and so would spend the …

…Galilei (1564-1642) Galileo was born in Pisa which is in Italy. Galileo was at first taught by monks but soon entered the University of Pisa to study medicine. The university wasn't much of what he wanted, though it did give him a good introduction to Aristotelian Physics. Galileo we mainly interested in falling bodies, swinging weights, and planets. Let me tell you that he managed to contribute quite a lot to the subject of physics.