Sample+Philosopher+Essay

//** "Galileo Galilei" **// 1. Galileo Galilei, a 16th Century Italian physicist, astronomer, mathematician and physicist, was known for his improvement of the telescope and application of the parabola to physics.

2. Galileo was more known for by believing and standing up against the Catholic Church leaders for the of the Heliocentric Theory, which states that the Sun is the center of the universe and his work of improving the telescope.

3. We can relate to Galileo's belief in the Heliocentric Theory which he stood up for against the Catholic Church who have put him under house arrest by comparing it to me because whenever I know something is right and I have evidence for it but my parents think it's wrong, they just overrule what I say and they either ground me or let me do chores for a week.

4. We can relate to Galileo's improvement of the telescope, which made him see more farther than the naked eye by comparing it to how a person can improve an object and improve it into something that will probably help just like what Galileo did to the telescope.