What is Galileo's backgound?

Answer 1

Galileo Galilei was born in 1564, in Tuscany, Italy. He commenced a medical degree at the University of Pisa, but transferred to study mathematics. Galileo became renowned as a physicist, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher. He became embroiled in controversity when the Church instructed him not to "hold or defend" the idea that the Earth moves and the Sun stands still at the centre.