Galileo sent to a Jesuit convent to study medicine. But after four years he announced that he had found the call: he wanted to become a monk. His father withdrew, but not before Galileo to join a religious order, thus becoming a priest without cassock for life.
Telescope Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus never wrote his theory, fearing it would jeopardize the daily salary working for the Catholic Church. Because urged theory of Copernicus, Galileo was sentenced to life in prison, but was later reduced to house arrest.
Finger of Galileo

A hundred years after his death, when his body was moved for reburial, an admirer of abducted middle finger of his right hand as a reminder. Finger of Galileo is now in the Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy.
Finger shows the direction of Rome.
When asked about the Inquisition, he said: "The Holy Scripture was intended to teach people how to go to heaven, not how heaven goes."
Galileo was a devout Catholic to death, but was never married the mother of his three children.
In 1617, Galileo bought a villa in the west of Florence, to stay at the monastery of girls. Because the illegal birth of the girls would authorize the state to require money, which he did not want to pay, the girls had no other choice but to stand at a convent for life.
Einstein was a great admirer of Galileo. "All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it," wrote Einstein. "Of assumptions logical means are completely separate in relation to reality. Because Galileo understand this, he is the father of modern physics and modern science together.
According to legend, Galileo studied the pendulum began to see the lamp while hanging in the balance in the Cathedral of Pisa. Because the head of the experiments in air, he believed (incorrectly) that the period of Pendulum is constant.
Galileo never managed to build a pendulum hour.
Attracted by mathematics and accepting the challenge to determine the dimensions of "Hell" Dante, he concluded that it was two thousand arm length.
University of Pisa Galileo hired as a mathematics professor, but because he was hard at work and irrelevant to students, the university withdrew the contract.
Although formulated laws of universal acceleration, there is no evidence that the rejected items from the Tower of Pisa to prove.
He did not invent the telescope, nor the idea of ​​a Dutch spectacles maker.
In 1992, three years after the launch of the space shuttle named "Galileo", the Vatican issued innocent of any wrongdoing.
In 2000, the probe "Galileo" found evidence of a frozen ocean to Europe, four from Jupiter's moons that Galileo discovered.
When Galileo discovered Saturn guessed that he kept hidden discoveries are encoded in an anagram.
He drew several inventions, including a candle and mirror to reflect light through the building, an automatic tomato harvesters and krehri pocket.
After his father's death, and fear of prison by debts, Galileo lived outlining a military compass that targeted the cannon balls balls.
Galileo is buried between Michelangelo and Machiavelli, and on his tombstone is said to be writing this epigraph: "However, the Earth moves." This inscription is not true.