Golden Years

Galileo’s golden years were wonderful, because these where the years where he made all his big accomplishments.  A few of these great accomplishments were Galileo’s Theory of Motion, making a new improved telescope for his time, his observation of sunspots, and his ideas that everything rotated around a Sun and not the Earth.  Galileo’s Theory of Motion was wrong, but it stated that the impacting force on an object was equivalent to the difference of the objects pull from gravity and the substance the object has to go through.  Another great accomplishment was the making of a new improved telescope.  This enabled Galileo to study and record data about heavenly bodies easier and better, and this lead to his observation of sunspots. He used this new telescope to study the sunspots on the Sun and record where they were at the different times of the year.  This is one of the things, which helped him be able to prove things rotate around the sun because he was able to see the same sunspots at the same times of a different year.  The idea that everything rotated around the sun was a big deal back in Galileo’s time as well, because the Catholic Church always said that Earth was the center of the universe.  This was a very religious time so many people did not accept Galileo’s idea very quickly.