ONE of the most important roles that scientists must fulfil is to help us better understand the world around us. But sometimes their findings can upset certain people because the new research may contradict those people’s old beliefs. This was the case with Galileo Galilei and his many discoveries. Today, he’s known as the father of modern science, but in his own time, he was persecuted and rejected because of the things he’d discovered about the workings of the universe.
EARLY LIFE
Galilei was born in in. This period in history, and it was a time of great change in society. People were moving away from the and discovering new things about the world. The French word “renaissance” means rebirth, and in terms of history, it refers to a period of revival and openness to all kinds of new ideas.