Galileo Film and Essay Study Questions Part 1

1. What institution did Galileo come into conflict with?
A: the Church
2. What was the popular belief about the sun and the earth at the time of Galileo?
A: The sun supposedly moved around the Earth
3. The apparent movement of the sun was both a calender and a clock at the time of Galileo.
4. What subject did Galileo leave medicine to study instead?
A: Mathematics
5. What did Galileo invent from the lenses of the spectacles?
A: Telescope
6. What was one of the first practical uses for the "spyglass" Galileo invented?
A: Look for enemy ships
7. What "heavenly" body did Galileo first study and chart?
A: The Moon
8. What planet did Galileo first study? What details did he find?
A: Jupiter. He saw four brilliant little stars and then realized that they were moons
9. Why did Galileo become famous in Europe shortly after the 1600s?
A: He wrote a best selling book
10. What view of Copernicus did Galileo adapt?
A:He thought that the sun might be at the center of the universe
11. What was the second planet for Galileo to study?
A:Venus
12. Describe the opposition that Galileo encountered?
A:Maditchi, other philosophers, and the church
13. Who was Giodarno Bruno? What happened to him?
A:A priest and a colt babbler including being a heretic
14. Who was Cardinal Bellarmine? What was he in charge of?
A: The cardinal who killed Bruno and was in charge of heretics. He had heard about Galileo
15. What list were the writings of Copernicus placed on by the Inquisition?
A:Index of prohibited books
16. What name did Galileo's daughter take at the convent? Why?
A: Sister Maria Che lest, it was a name given to her by God