Galileo Galilei

You might have noticed by now that the pick of the most important historical figures n Italy only features scientists. Balance is the key here; you will discover many references to Italy's contributions to music, literature, painting, and sculpture, and you are undoubtedly already aware that Dante Alighieri, Michelangelo, and Leonardo Da Vinci were all Italian. Toplist decided to offer this list a unique twist by concentrating on the greatest scientists.

Because of his revolutionary advances in astronomy and mathematics as well as the innovation he brought to the scientific method itself, Galileo Galilei is considered the founder of modern science. Of course, the Inquisition famously brought charges against him for upholding the Heliocentrism hypothesis, which holds that the Earth and other planets rotate around the sun. His contemporaries, who advocated the widely accepted geocentric view, in which the Earth was believed to be the center of the universe, regarded this theory as both incorrect and heresy. After being compelled to retract his views, Galileo was placed under house arrest for the remainder of his life. He unintentionally left behind a strange artifact that can be seen in Florence.