Background

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."


Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy, on February 15,1564. When Galileo was a young child, he went to the Florence’s Vallombrosa Monastery to be educated. He later went to the university of Pisa in 1583 to be a medical student. However, he left to go to teach math at the University of Padua at the age of 21.


Below is the Vallombrosa where Galileo went to school when he was a young child.