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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Gailileos Daughter

Galileo Galilei was born in 1564 at Pisa. His run-ins with the church remain highly famous till this day but are often romanticized or misunderstood. He was a great philosopher who discovered many things which include how the world really worked and it's very unique aspects. Although Gailileo was often misunderstood due to his highly advanced maner of speaking and the things which he discovered or thought, many people like Pope Urban understood where he was coming from and were as well intrigued by some of his discoveries and the way in which he presented himself. Gailileo saw that it was best to express his ideas to others through writing and that it was one of the only ways people could get to know him better and see for themselves that what he spoke was not fiction but indeed science and possibly accurate. He began writing a book which he based upon data on which he talked about how sun spots seemed to change day by day. During this period of time the black plague hit many very hard, and left others dead. Galileo however only remained sick and thanks to one of his daughters he stayed alive. His daughter had been bought up in a convent most of her life but she still had a very strong connection with her father. During his time of sickness she managed to sent him medicine that she had either taken from the convent or made herself from herbs. This was one way her father was able to finish his work. She also sent him notes telling him of how well she was doing as to not worry him about anything that could worsen his sickness. Since their relationshio was so close, he would send her some of the pieces of work he had so busily finished and she would edit them for him. She was not only his daughter, but now was also seen as a business partner or editing chief who made sure that her fathers works of art were quite accurate even though she didn't always understand what he spoke of. Overall, if it hadn't been for her his books would of never gotten published, and who knows maybe we wouldn't even know about him now.

1 Comments:

Blogger wbasinger said...

Well explained and summarized 12/12 for week 2.

February 27, 2009 at 5:09 PM  

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