HIST 1250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Scientific Revolution, Sentenced
7 Dec 2013
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Very much of the patronage system, has a university education. Born in italy, lives in an area that is very wealthy. His family is not rich, he needs to get a job after finishing school. His father wants him to be a doctor, but he is more interested in math but there are no jobs in math at the time. In 1610 he leaves teaching all together and joins the royal court. Gets a job at the university of pisa. Colleagues and university are very conservatives; he doesn"t like it. Gets a job at a different university that is much more liberal. He hears rumours of someone building a telescope in northern europe. He sees four moons going around jupiter, shows not everything goes around the earth. Galileo travels to the vatican and tries to prove to them his theory is right. He takes a break from this work to calm the church. Sentenced to house arrest by the vatican.
