Part one of term paper
was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa.” (1:1) “His father, Vincenzo Galilei, belonged to a noble family of straitened fortune.” (2:1) Galileo had an “aptitude for mathematical and mechanical pursuits, but his parents, wishing to turn him aside from studies which promised no substantial return, destined him for the medical profession. ...

Part two of term paper
... medicine and enrolled in the University of Pisa to do so, but soon turned to mathematics and mechanics. He left the university without a degree. In 1592, he was offered achair in mathematics at the University of Padua, where he remained until 1610. (1:1) “Galileo wanted to study gravity-and how it affected acceleration-in great detail.” (3:1) “First of all, the theory which virtually everyone accepted at the time was the traditional theory of Aristotle, who believed that heavier objects fall ...