Galileo Description Card

Birth and death dates: Feb 15 1564, Jan 8 1642
Birth place: Pisa Italy
He used the telescope to determine many things about the solar system
Galileo was the person to use a telescope to prove the heliocentric model, discover the phases of Venus, discover the rings of Saturn, name the moons of Saturn . Galileo was also the chair of mathematics at multiple universities, discovered that weight does not change the speed of falling, invented the thermoscope, and was sentenced to life in prison.