Galileo is known as science’s most dramatic character. He is known as a rebel philosopher who advocated free though in a country where individual opinion was detested. He confronted authority and tradition by putting his beliefs in his scientific work before those of religion. His concept of questioning and searching for the truth led to many discoveries such as the isochronism of the pendulum, disapproving the accepted Aristotelian concept of the fall of weights, …showed first 75 words of 1465 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1465 total…nd he publicly confessed. He was then sentenced to house arrest in his home near Florence for an indefinite length of time. He was also forbidden to publish and teach. It seemed like Galileo would have given up on investing and discovering new ideas but he didn’t. He continued to research and invented new instuments. He also wrote his great book on motion and mechanics summing up his life’s work in the field.