Podcast 1

Galileo began his life as the oldest of six children, and was encouraged to be a priest. He instead studied medicine but ended up moving on to mathematics. He began observing with telescopes all about the planets and was able to prove first that the sun was not the center of the universe. He could make out what he described as Saturn's handles. Galileo found the moons of Jupiter and thus proved that earth could not be the center of all orbits. He also used the phases of Venus. He went against the church however, and it made it difficult for him. The church was sort of with his theories however, but the way he handled the observations made it difficult. He was rather ostentatious. He described forces even though forces were unheard of.