The father of modern science




"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them"

  Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was born in Pisa, Italy. He spent years observing the movements of the planets through a telescope. At the time it was generally thought that the earth was the centre of the universe. Galileo believed, as Copernicus had done seventy years before, that the earth rotated on its axis once daily and traveled round the sun once every year. At the time, this was a fantastic concept and considered as dangerous by the Church who had told:

"The proposition that the sun is in the centre of the world is absurd, philosophically false and heretical; it is contrary to Holy Scriptures"

In 1633 he was considered guilty of heresy and spent the final years of life imprisoned in his own home.

Galileo is referred as 'the father of modern science'. He paved the way for the separation of science and religion.

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