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Title: Galileo


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Galileos Observations
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The Milky Way
  • Discovered the Milky Way was, in fact, NOT milk,
    but 1000s of stars.
  • This is his image of Pleiades.

3
The Moon may or may not be cheese
  • Sketches of the moons bumps. Mountains,
    craters.

4
Saturns a bit wide in the saddle
  • Saturn has bulges.
  • Did not know they were rings thought they were
    additional worlds.

5
Sunspots
  • After staring at the Sun, he noticed dark spots!
    (Imagine that).

6
Galilean Moons
  • Discovered Jupiter had moons.
  • Uh oh! Geocentricity?

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Phases of Venus
  • NOT possible if Earth was the center of
    everything.
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