Galileo Galiei

Galileo was born in 1564,in Italy. He became an astronomer, physicist and mathematician. Galileo observed that the moon was covered in craters and mountains. Galileo discovered that the sun was not smooth but covered with dark areas called sunspots. Galileo believed that the sun was at the centre of the Solar System and orbited by Earth and the other planets. Galileo is now recognized as an important astronomer and scientist.