Labels:text | font | document | paper | black and white OCR: 1564 Born Galileo Galilei on February 15 in Pisa, Italy. 1581 Having received his early education at a monastery, he enrolls as a medical student at the University of Pisa. 1589 Becomes Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pisa. 1592 Becomes Professor of Mathematics at the University of Padua, Italy, where he works on his theory of motion. He eventually defines his Law of Uniformly Accelerated Motion and his Law of Parabolic Fall. 1604 A bright new star appears in the constellation of Ophiuchus. He shows it is more distant from Earth than the planets and so confirms the theory of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) that things change in the region beyond the planets. 1609 On a visit to Venice he learns of the newly invented telescope. He makes himself a refracting telescope ...
