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| Galileo constructs what is known as the first telescope,
and with it looks to the sky and comes up with his greatest theories. With
Copernicus’ theories at hand, Galileo revised them and improved upon
them. Agreeing with the helio-centric solar system, he took it a step further
saying that the sun was rotating around something larger, and that the stars
were other suns. He also proved the theory of gravity, by dropping weights
of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. His theories got him in trouble with the Catholic
Church, who thought that the Biblical fantasies of Earth-centered universe
and the perfect universe created by God were more accurate than his science.
He was forced to retract all his work, but later it was revealed that Galileo
was indeed correct. |
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