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Week 5 (Galileo)
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- The first telescope was made in The Netherlands
- Built his own telescope
- Observed satellites (moons) orbiting Jupiter
- Letter on Sunspots (1612)
- Describes Venus' orbit around the sun
- Galileo's friend becomes Pope
- Writes the Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems (1632)
- Won't have the inquisition come after him if his friend is the Pope
- Calls his friend the Pope stupid
- Gets called to the inquisition
- Is asked to formally recant his position
- What was known
- How it was known
- What the knowledge was for
- Falling objects accelerate