Galileo and Maria Celeste

Galileo Galilei was a brilliant philosopher and astronomer. He was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy. He is credited with using the first refracting telescope to make important discoveries is space where no one else was able to travel to at the time. He also came up with the experimental scientific method which was a theory that is still used today in science. Galileo was a great person and created a highly controversial book which was banned for 200 years. This all would not have been possible without the help of his daughter Maria Celeste who helped him greatly.

Maria Celeste was Galileo's daughter and helped his work tremendously. Even though she was held up in a convent for most of her life, she still managed to help Galileo. She did many things for him. She helped him financially and paid his taxers and bills. She helped edit and get his book published before the time of his death. She gave him medicine in order to fend off the black plague. She created many medicinal potions that helped Galileo through his daily activities and helped him stay alive. She also would look after her father. She obviously cared for him a great deal and showed it by helping him with everyday activities and helping him get his ideas in a book and helped spread his ideas to the rest of the Western European world.  

If it were not for Maria Celeste, then Galileo would have probably perished from the black plague or from the church when he was being accused of treason and going against the church. As we can see, Maria Celeste helped greatly with Galileo's life and without her, the rise and spread of astronomy and his philosophical ideas would have been impossible.