The discovery of the telescope enabled humanists to ascertain the real position of the Earth and helped Galileo to substantiate his heliocentric model of the solar system, constituting a great advancement in the field of astronomy, and re-emphasized mankind's ability as a human and his achievements and potential, adding to the ideal of humanism which was a characteristic of the Renaissance. ...

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As Galileo physically proved that the Sun rests in the center through the utilization of a telescope, the church began to feel compelled to allow the theory to stand as a hypothesis rather than a fact. ...

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