View Galileo Galilei Inventions Pendulum Clock Gif. During the 16th century, aristotelian physics was still the predominant way of explaining the behavior of bodies near the earth. Galileo galilei's telescope with his handwritten note specifying the magnifying power of the lens, at an exhibition at the franklin institute in.

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His inventions, from compasses and balances to improved telescopes and microscopes. This natural philosopher, italian astronomer and mathematician was born in 1564 in 1641, in the twilight of his life, he devised a scheme to use a pendulum to regulate a mechanical clock. Galileo galilei was also one of the first europeans to observe the phenomena of sunspots;

Since he was by then blind, galileo described the device to his son, who drew a sketch of it.

But this idea, could only be carried out. Although galileo galilei, sometimes credited with inventing the pendulum, studied its motion as early as 1582, galileo's design for a clock was not built before his refinements led in 1889 to siegmund riefler's clock with a nearly free pendulum, which had an accuracy of a hundredth of a second a day. Find out if galileo's inventions were all about the cosmos in this article from howstuffworks.com. During the 16th century, aristotelian physics was still the predominant way of explaining the behavior of bodies near the earth.