A | B |
Galileo | Astronomer born in 1564 |
monastery | where Galileo attended school |
Pisa | site of Galileo's Lamp |
clock | designed with a pendulum |
Leaning Tower of Pisa | site of some of Galileo's experiments |
Ptolemy | Roman astronomer |
Ptolemaic Theory | stated the sun moved around the earth |
Copernican Theory | stated the earth moved around the sun |
Medici | patron family of Galileo |
Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto | moons of Jupiter |
heliocentric | having the sun as the center |
geocentric | relating to the earth as the center |
cosmos | the orderly universe |
dialogue | a conversation between two or more persons |
inquisition | a severe questioning |
Vencenzio | Galileo's father |
house | where Galileo was imprisoned |
Virginia and Livia | Galileo's daughters |
with respect | how Galileo treated people |
David Scott | astronaut |