And Yet It Does Move Italian physician, astronomer and
mathematician – Galileo Galilei, convicted to death by the
Inquisition for his strongly supported belief that the Earth is
not standing still, but he had to waive that to avoid the death
at the stake, but there’s a legend saying that after publicly
denying his own belief, he whispered – And yet it does move!
That happened in 1633, no wonder we call that period “dark
ages”, because all the knowledge was accesible only to a church
minority. Nevertheless, Galilei managed to discover the kinds of
oscillation of the pendulum, formulated the laws of free fall of
bodies under the influence of gravity, movement along an incline
plane, introduced the concept of acceleration and inertia, which
was of great importance to the subsequent development of
mechanics. In 1609 he constructed the astronomical telescope,
which was demonstrated in the tower of the church Sv. Mark’s in
Venice. The following discoveries were the Moon’s and Venus’
surface sizes, Jupiter’s satelli