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In 1609, Galileo heard about the invention of the spyglass, a device which made distant objects appear closer. Galileo used his mathematics knowledge and technical skills to improve upon the spyglass and build a telescope. Later that same year, he became the first person to look at the Moon through a telescope and make his first astronomy discovery. He found ...
The appearance of a supernova in 1604 led to disputes about the Aristotelian idea of the incorruptibility of the heavens, in which Galileo took an active part. He delivered three lectures to overflow crowds at Padua and prepared to publish an astronomical work; he did not do so, however, and only a short fragment of the manuscript survives. Lodovico delle ...
The biblical roots of Galileo's name and surname were to become the subject of a famous pun. In 1614, during the Galileo affair, one of Galileo's opponents, the Dominican priest Tommaso Caccini, delivered against Galileo a controversial and influential sermon. In it he made a point of quoting Acts 1:11, "Ye Men of Galilee, why stand you gazing up in ...
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