Galileo Galilei was born in 1564, in Pisa (Italy), from a family who was very musical. That’s the reason why he could play the organ and the flute. But most people knew him because he was the scientist who founded modern physics and telescopic astronomy. Actually, in 1609, he made a telescope and discovered a
lot of important things about the solar system, for example the four moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, and the fact thar planets went around the sun.
He also studied medicine at the University of Pisa from 1581 to 1585 (but
he left it because he had no money), but, in general, he preferred Maths and Physics. In fact, he wrote about that in his works Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632) and Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (1631). He died in January in 1642.
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