How Did Galileo Galilei Contribute To Science

The universe would have never guessed that on our very own little tiny Earth, one man could think of new innovative ways to view our solar system and discover so much about it. On February 15, 1564, in the city of Pisa, Italy a boy was born that would forever change the way humans look up at the stars every night.
Galileo Galilei has been and will forever be known for his discoveries and inventions, and how they contributed to our planet. Many known scientific theories have spawn from the ingenious mind of Galileo. Like all discoverers, you either make a theory or support a theory. Many people before Galileo's time thought that the earth was the center of the universe and all of the planets orbited it. He proved the Heliocentric Theory of Copernicus in one of his many books. This stated that the sun was the center of the universe and that earth and all of the other planets revolved around it.
In 1581 Galileo was sent to University of Pisa to study medicines. He discovered in school that he became very fond and very good at mathematics. He then convinced his father to let him become a mathematics professor. In 1609 Galileo decided that he wanted to do something big, so with his knowledge in math and all of his good ideas he patented the very first telescope. After using it plenty of times, he started to make observations that the moon was not flat, but very similar to earth, terrain wise. He also found out new characteristics of other planets like, the four moons belonging to Jupiter, the nature of saturn itself, and the phases of