... false. The first thing he saw was that the moon was mountainous and pitted, much like earth, and in 1610 he discovered four moons circling Jupiter which he published as Starry Messenger. Galileo had tried several times with no luck to work under the Medici family who had ruled for centuries and had dominated banking and commerce in Florence also being influential ... in church matters. Galileo saw his discovery of the four moons as his best chance and so he sent Starry Messenger, his finest telescope, and a personal plea to the Medici family. Soon he was granted the position of mathemat...

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... used to develop his astronomical discoveries. The numerous astronomical discoveries made by Galileo with the aid of his telescopes were described in a short book called Message from the stars or Starry Messenger (Sidereus Nuncius) published in Venice in May 1610. In this book, Galileo claimed to have seen mountains on the Moon, to have proved that the Milky Way was made up ... ...

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... his predecessor Nicholas Copernicus, a Polish astronomer who developed the heliocentric theory that the earth rotates daily on its axis and revolves yearly around the sun. In 1610, Galileo published The Starry Messenger, presenting his findings. This new theory went completely against the ancient belief that the earth was the center of the universe and aroused a storm of protest from the Catholic Church ... ...

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