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Observing the sky with telescopes, Galileo was able to show that there are more stars in the sky than one can see with naked eye, Venus has phases, Jupiter has its own moons, and the Sun is rotating. These new observational results gave Copernicus’ heliocentric theory the necessary boost to gain acceptance. Most significantly, Galileo’s study of motion of objects removed the Aristotelian argument against a moving Earth.
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Kwok, S. (2017). The Imperfect Heaven. In: Our Place in the Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54172-3_20
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