Galileo Galilei Honor is defined as regarding a person with high respect. To me honor is respecting someone who deserves to be recognized for their heroism. Galileo Galilei made many important contributions to the fields of physics, astronomy, cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy, but with a fair price. Galileo was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, the first of the six children. His father was a well-known musician named Vincenzo Galileo who dreamed that his son would become a doctor. He went to the University of Pisa to study medicine in 1581. Galileo realized that he had a talent for mathematics and persuaded his father to let him leave schooling and become a mathematical tutor instead. He made his first major discovery in 1581 when he described in detail the motion of pendulums.…show more content… In the following year, Galileo discovered what he thought to be four new stars, but were later to be defined as the four largest moons that orbited Jupiter. He hurriedly made a treatise, called “The Starry Messenger,” that described what he had discovered, such as the surface of the moons and descriptions of many other stars found in the Milky Way. Attempting to please the duke of Tuscany, he offered the idea that the “stars” should be called “Medician Stars.” This treatise made Galileo quite famous in Italy. He was appointed the mathematician as well as the philosopher to the Medici family, which gave him his own platform to tell his theories and question others. Galileo’s observations went against the idea of heavenly perfection which led to the orbits of the stars violating the other idea of the heavens revolving the