Jennifer

__Homework Renaissance : Galileo Galilei__

//__Here are a few datails about my life...__//

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// I was the first of six other children, my father was called Vinzenzo, he was a musican, but he was also a kind of cloth trader. My mom was called Giulia Ammannati. both of them put me in a convent, where I stayed my childhood. After this, I got to know my future wife; Marina Gamba, she gave me 3 children; Virginia and Livia and Vincenzo. //====== // Then dad wanted me to study medicine, which I broke up, because I didn´t really like it and so I started studying Maths and Physics, which I was a lot better in. One day, I cannot remember which one, I saw a lamp in the entrance hall of my university, swinging back and forth. I wanted to find out about how long it would keep swinging and found out, that the period of each swing was exactly the same time. That was one of the reasons, why I got famous. In 1592 I moved to the university of Padua and tought //// geometry,, mechanics and astronomy until 1610, when I was 46, in this time already, I was known for my discoveries in kinetic forces, dynamics, astonomy and other stuff. // //But then, I sadly died in Arcetri, in 1642, which still was in my lovin' Italy.// // One of my first Spyglasses, which I made in the early summer of 1609 // [|www.public.asu.edu/.../GalileoTelescope.jpg]

__//I contributed to the Renaissance in the following ways... //__

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//I found out about that the sun is not moving around our earth, that the world is not in the middle of everything, which the church wasn´t willing to believe me. But then the people believed me and so the thoughts of our whole system of planets changed.//======

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//__I think these contributions were particularly important because... __// //This was importaint because now all af the people were much more confident in travelling and exploring, they were not afraid anylore, the would fall into the universe, also all of the people knew, that the sun was very importaint, because of the energy it gives to us and not the earth. So I made people think different about outerspace.//

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Video about Galileos Life. ( About 2 minutes )

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Animated Video about Galileos Life ( About 4 minutes ), not so easy to understand, but a lot more funnier!

To Once, Who Made a Real Difference in the Renaissance!
To make a real difference in the Renaissance, you had to be powerful!

From Jennifer Grotjahn

In this essay, I will talk about the most famous people in the Renaissace. Mostly about the ones, who were very powerful, and only through this,they got the opportunity, to change the lifestyle of the people in the time of the Renaissance. That doesn’t necessarily mean, that they were the best ones in that time, but they had most impact.

Here is just a small list of people in that time,who changed renaissace by their power, which I am later on going to talk about:


 * Henry VIII of England

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