Galileo Galilei MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Galileo Galilei? Galileo Galilei is an INTP personality type in MBTI, 5w6 - sp/so - 512 in Enneagram, SCUEI in Big 5, ILE in Socionics.
Like Albert Einstein, He was a dropout. He was a self taught scholar Galileo, whose father was a lute player and music theorist, was born in Pisa, Italy. Although his father was from a noble family, they weren’t wealthy. As a pre-teen, Galileo began studying at a monastery near Florence and considered becoming a monk; however, his father wasn’t in favor of his son pursuing a religious life and eventually removed him from school. When he was 16, Galileo enrolled at the University of Pisa to study medicine, at his father’s urging. Instead, though, he became interested in mathematics and shifted his focus to that subject. Galileo left the school in 1585 without earning a degree. He continued his mathematics studies on his own and earned money by giving private lessons before returning to the University of Pisa in 1589 to teach math. Galileo was sentenced to life in prison by the Roman Inquisition. Copernicus’ heliocentric theory about the way the universe works challenged the widely accepted belief, espoused by the astronomer Ptolemy in the second century, that put the Earth at the center of the solar system. In 1616, the Catholic Church declared Copernican theory heretical because it was viewed as contradicting certain Bible verses. Galileo received permission from the Church to continue investigating Copernicus’ ideas, as long as he didn’t hold or defend them. In 1632, he published “Dialogue of the Two Principal Systems of the World,” and although it was presented as a discussion between friends about the ideas of Ptolemy and Copernicus, the book was seen as supporting the Copernican model of the universe. As a result, the following year Galileo was ordered to stand trial before the Inquisition in Rome. After being found guilty of heresy, Galileo was forced to publicly repent and sentenced to life in prison. Throughout his adulthood, Galileo worked as an astronomer, physicist, philosopher, inventor and mathematician. His status as an academic polymath can be traced back to his boyhood. Galileo already showed skill in these topics as a child, as well as an aptitude in several artistic areas. He learned all about music from his father, Vincenzo Galilei, who worked as a court musician and composer. These lessons inspired Galileo’s lifelong passion for several instruments, particularly the lute, which he supposedly mastered in “charm of style and delicacy of touch” as a boy. Galileo also cultivated talent as an artist during his childhood and seriously considered a career as a painter. In fact, later in life, Galileo joined the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno (Academy of Drawing Arts) in Florence and would go on to advise the era’s top painters on chiaroscuro and perspective. Galileo clashed with the church (but not Catholicism itself) Though these telescopic sightings proved to Galileo that the universe was centered around the sun, his increasingly outspoken support of “heliocentrism” had some serious consequences. At the time, the Catholic Church fought to maintain the traditional model of the cosmos, and in 1616 they denounced heliocentrism as “foolish and absurd” and “formally heretical,” since it seemed to contradict several Bible passages. As a result, Galileo avoided the topic publicly until 1632, when he published Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which seemed to ardently support heliocentrism. Galileo was immediately tried by the Vatican, whereupon he was determined to be “vehemently suspect of heresy” and sentenced to indefinite house arrest. Though Galileo is famed for this conflict, the scholar was surprisingly devout in his personal life: He was raised as a staunch Catholic and even considered the priesthood as a potential career. Some Quotes Of Him “Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe”. “The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics”. “Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences”. “Passion is the genesis of genius”. “Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not”. “Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty”. “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them”. “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him”. “You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself”. “Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written”.
Biography
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", and the "father of modern science". He was also a philosopher and mathematician and played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance.
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