Answer each of the following questions in one complete sentence.
(a) How did Galileo contribute to science?
(b) What did Galileo do with his telescope?
(c) Why did Galileo have trouble with the church?
(d) What notion do you get about the church of Galileo's time?
(e) What do you know about the schooling of Galileo?
Solve:
(a) Galileo invented telescope and observed planetary motions and underwent scientific experiments.
(b) Galileo observed the planetary motions and discovered that actually sun was the centre of our solar system.
(c) Galileo had trouble with church because his discoveries were against the words of Bible.
(d) I think that the church of his time was of ill culture, they did not understand the meaning of their religion rather they gave wrong explanation.
(e) Galileo had a tutor at home in Pisa, then went to a school in a monastery at Florence, later went to university of
Pisa to study medicines.
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