Galileo's full name was Galileo Galilei. He was Italian and was born in Pisa, Italy on 15th of February 1564. He was determined to go to the University of Pisa to study medicine. Pretty much everything started after studying in the University of Pisa.
One day he went to Pisa Cathedral and and was looking at the chandelier that was in the cathedral. During that time, he was studying the light fixture, so he noticed that the chandelier was swinging in larger and smaller arcs, because of the air currents. He used his pulse to observe how much time it took for the chandelier to swing back and forth. After this event, Galileo made an experiment . He set up two pendulums which were equal in length, by swinging one through a large arc and the other with a smaller sweep Galileo observed that they kept time together. This discovery led to Galileo’s study of time intervals and the development of his idea for a pendulum clock.
Galileo’s inventions weren’t limited with that. He changed his major from medicine to natural physics after inventing the pendulum clock. He created the thermoscope which was an early invention of the thermometer.
He also had some ideas about the space. He predicted a lot of things about earth, moon and sun.
After a life full of exciting and useful inventions, Galileo died on 8th of January 1642.
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