
Title Page Of Book By Galileo

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Title Page Of Book By Galileo
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Science Photo Library
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Title page of Galileo's book. View of the title page of Sidereus nuncius (The Starry Messenger) by Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), detailing discoveries made with his newly invented telescope. The book (1610) described the use of a perspicilli, which was soon renamed as a telescope. The discoveries included sunspots, faint stars of the Milky Way, four satellites of Jupiter and mountains on the Moon. He achieved a great deal of fame through the book. Galileo also studied gravity, showing that heavy and light objects fall at the same rate. His support for the Copernican theory that the Sun is at the centre of the solar system led to persecution by the Inquisition.
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September 16th, 2018
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