Galileo Galileo was a starry-eyed child. He often imagined himself flying through the clouds.

He was sent away to school to become a doctor, but he did not learn easily. His favourite subject was mathematics. He believed that it could be a key to understanding the world around him. At the age of eighteen Galileo made his first discovery. He was in a church when he heard a strange noise. He noticed that an oil lamp was swinging backwards and forwards. He also heard the lamp's chain hitting against the wall, and it seemed to him that they were both moving at the same time. "Am I only dreaming again?" He wondered. But he hurried home to fine out if what he thought was true. He took two pieces of lead that were of the same weight and tied them to two ropes of equal length. He fixed the ropes to a chair. He gave his father one rope to hold at the end with the weight, he held the other rope higher than his father's. They let go of the weights at the same time and then counted the number of swings backwards and forwards. Both father and son reached one hundred together. "Father," shouted Galileo. "Don't you see? My rope was further up than yours but they both arrived at the same point at the same time". The old Italian couldn't know then that his son had just discovered a great fact. Nor did he know that, for hundreds of years, men would use this knowledge to measure time on a clock and to watch the stars and sun moving in the sky. To Galileo, it was only a beginning. Next he said that tow different weights fall together if they come down from the same height. "Not possible!" His friend said. "Everyone knows that a penny falls faster than a feather! "Follow me and I will show you". Commanded Galileo. And up to the top of the tower of Pisa he climbed. He carried a ball in each hand, but one was ten times as heavy as the other. He let go of them at the same time and he heard the crowd become silent when the balls hit the ground together. They had just seen something they could not believe! For the rest of his life he worked to make things that the whole world uses and enjoys today. He made a compass to point out the direction in which a person is travelling. He used a magnet to explain many things about the earth. He measured the heat of air with a thermometer. Finally, he proved to the world that the earth and all other stars moved around the sun, which is at the centre. To do this, he built a telescope through which he could study the stars, the sun, and the moon. From a boy who had a science in his blood and stars in his eyes he grew to be a great man who opened the beauties of the heavens to people on earth.

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