Wednesday, March 4, 2009

How Galileo's daughter (Maria Celeste) helped Galileo

The daughter of Galileo, Maria Celeste, help out Galileo is many ways. Some of which greatly effected our world today. Galileo's work would have never even been done if it wasn't for her. First of all, she greatly helped him to survive, including feeding him and giving him medicine and making sure that he was always healthy in order to make accurate observations. One of the most crucial and important things that she did for him was editing all of his writings, which saved Galileo so much time and allowed him to put that to use through better observations, which led to proving the church wrong. Furthermore, after Galileo was on trial for making fun of Pope Urban (can someone please tell me which one) in his book, Galileo was put on trial by the offended pope. Where Maria comes in in this situation is that fact that she fully prepared Galileo for his trial and told him exactly what to say to them.

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