With his own fashioned spyglass, the ‘father of modern science’ Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) discovered Jupiter’s four largest moons, spots on the sun, and mountains on the moon. For his promotion of the Copernican model of heliocentrism, the Italian polymath, who lived in Pisa and Padua, was imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition for heresy.
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