Full Name: Galileo Galilei
Nickname: Father of modern science
                   Father of modern astronomy
                   Father of modern math

Father: Vincenzo Galilei (1520-1591)
Mother: Giulia di Cosimo Ammannati (1538-1620)
Girlfriend: Marina Gamba (3 children)

Date of Birth: 15 February 1564
Birth Place: Pisa, Duchy of Florence, Italy

Date of Death: 8 January 1642 (aged 77)
Death Place: Arcetri, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Italy
Cause of Death: Unspecified
Remains: Buried, Santa Croce Church, Florence, Italy

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Education: University of Pisa
Occupation: Astronomer, Physicist, Mathematician
Teacher: University of Pisa
Professor: University of Padua
Discovered: Ganymede, Europa, Callisto, Io (moon).

Known for: Kinematics, Dynamics, Telescopic observational astronomy, and Heliocentrism.

Influenced: Modern Society, Isaac Newton, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz.

Major Writing: The Operations of the Geometrical and Military Compass (1604), Sidereus Nuncius (Science, Mathematics 1610), The Assayer (1623) Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Mathematics, Science 1632), Two New Sciences (Science, 1638).

Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. He supported that Earth orbits the sun, the idea named Copernicanism. Galileo wrote his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632). He is credited with establishing the modern experimental method. Einstein considered him "the father of modern science."

Childhood & Early Life: Galileo Galilei was born on 15 February 1564 in Pisa, Duchy of Florence, Italy. His father, Vincenzo Galilei (1520-1591) was a famous lutenist, composer and music theorist and his mother were named Giulia di Cosimo Ammannati. In 1574, Galileo started his formal education at the Camaldolese monastery in Vallombrosa, Florence after moving there with his family. In 1583, he was admitted to the University of Pisa to study medicine though he was very much interested to become a priest since childhood. Though he had immense interest in fine art, he had been decided on as the artwork tutor for the Accademia Delle Arti del Disegno situated in Florence in 1588. Working as a teacher at Accademia, Galileo made friends with Florentine painter Cigoli. Galileo produced a good world of one in relation to his performance, as well as his strident criticisms of Aristotle still left your ex out of the way amongst his acquaintances.

Personal Life: In 1600, Galileo Galilei met with Marina Gamba, a Venetian woman. They had two daughters, Virginia (Sister Maria Celeste, b. 1600, d. 1634) and Livia (Sister Arcangela, b. 1601, d. 1649), and in 1606 one son, Vincenzo Gamba (married Sestilia Bocchineri). Due to financial problems, he never married Marina and worried about the future of his girl.

Later Life & Death: In 1589, Galileo was appointed to the chair of mathematics in Pisa and his father died in 1591. In 1592, he moved his base to the University of Padua where he taught geometry, mechanics and astronomy until 1610. In 1609, he invented a telescope with 3x magnification and along with several other scientists used a refracting telescope to observe stars, planets or moons. On 25 August 1609, Galileo presented the demonstrations of his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. In March 1616, he published the registered research along with findings in the primary telescopic astronomy and went to Rome to persuade the Roman Catholic Church not to ban Copernicus’s ideas. In 1624, created the compound microscope. In 1634, returned to his home in Florence. From 1634, Galileo was under complete house arrest and became completely blind in 1638. On January 8 1642, Galileo died with house arrested. He was buried at Santa Croce Church in Florence, Italy.