She continuously worried about his health and provided various medicines prepared by her in the convent, looked after the household affairs for him, prayed for him, in short a pillar of strength and filial love. Throughout the tormenting years of his life, Maria was his most faithful correspondent from behind the walls of her convent. And at the age of seventy, Galileo found himself abandoned to a house prison in an ill health. The conflicts grew so much so over years that his work called the “Daialogue” was banned by the Church and he was prosecuted for writing it. Though, Galileo was able to provide physical evidence by actually showing people around him the heavenly bodies with his telescope, his works incurred the displeasure of the Catholic Church with various Jesuits claiming his work to be heretic. The eldest of his children Virginia, who was renamed Suor Maria Celeste when she became a nun, remained a source of continuous comfort, care, love and consolation throughout his life.Īs we know, Galileo was vastly contested by his contemporaries, especiallay those who held the aristotalean and Ptolemic structure of the universe and did not believe in Copernican theory of a heliocentric universe. And Galileo entered them at the convent in Arcetri, where they become nuns at the age of sixteen and spent rest of their lives.
Since, the girls were illegitimate children there was no hope for them to be married. When Galileo moved back to Tuscany as the chief mathematician and philosopher to the grand duke, he took his daughters with him. Though he never married her, she gave birth to three children of Galileo: Virginia, Livia and Vincenzio. It was here that he met Marina Gamba, whom he took as his mistress.
He studied at the University of Pisa and went on to teach mathematics at the University of Padua. But, there is much much more to know about the life of this man who is truly honoured as the father of “Experimental Physics”.īorn in a patrician family, 1564 in Pisa, Italy, Galileo learnt his first lessons in physics working with his composer father on tuning the musical instruments by mathematical principles. Yes, he did all these he was one of the most brillian minds in Euope in 16th and 17th century. When we hear the name “Galileo Gelilei”, what are the first things that come to our mind? That, he invented the telescope, that we was the first man in Europe to gaze at the stars, the one who found out that Moon’s surface consisted of mountains and hills just like Earth, who discovered the four satellites of Jupiter and the dark spots on the surface of the pristine sun.
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