Galileo Galilei and the Telescope the Church Tried to Silence

The real story of Galileo Galilei, the father of modern astronomy, who built a telescope to reveal moons around Jupiter before people believed Earth moved around the sun. 

Galileo was born in 1564 in Pisa, Italy, the same year Michelangelo died.He entered candlelight monasteries, questioned the sky before science had instruments, and built a better telescope within a day after hearing about a Dutch design.

He saw:

Craters on the moon

4 moons around Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto)

Proving not everything circles Earth.

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