Why is February 15 important for science?

📌 February 15 is important for modern science as it is Galileo Galilei’s birthday.

📌 Galileo (1564-1642) ⬆️ was an Italian natural philosopher who made several major contributions to scientific progress.

📌 Before Galileo, science was not considered a profession. Typically, people who did ‘science’ were considered natural philosophers and held positions as medical doctors, mathematicians or priests with extra time on their hands.

📌 Galileo was one of the first to express the belief that the basic laws of science could be broken down into mathematics.

📌 🔭 He studied speed and gravity to predict paths of projectile motion. He was among the first to take a closer look at the skies above with a telescope.

📌 His life is generally used as the beginning point of the history of modern science.

📌 His philosophy of observing first, explain second and then observe some more would become the foundation of the modern scientific method.

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