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The Crime Of Galileo Galilei - Biography

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He had heard in 1609 that in Holland they had invented a crude telescope. Seizing on this idea, he set out to perfect this marvelous device. Don't forget, his interest lay in physics. Working feverishly he succeeded in building a successful model which he promptly presented to the Doge of Venice. The latter seeing its potential as a navigational device immediately doubled his salary.

By the end of the year he had managed to build a model with 20 times magnification. Then he made a fateful decision. He pointed it to the heavens. The first object to appear in his wonderful glass was the Moon. Poor old Galileo. What was he going to do? You see according to divine revelation a-la-Aristotle, the moon being part of the heavens was smooth and divinely perfect. Now here, right in his telescope it was plain to see that it was anything but.

Fortunately for him, his discoveries, which subsequently also included the fact that the planet Venus had phases like those of the moon and that another planet, Jupiter, had moons of its own did, not get him in trouble with the Church even when he published these findings in March 1610 in "The Starry Messenger". In fact it gained him an appointment as court mathematician at Florence. 
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