Throughout history, people have always been aware of ever-present truths concerning the world in which they lived. ... And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, while the nation took vengeance on its foe The sun halted in the middle of the sky; not for a whole day did it resume its swift course... "* The way that the Church saw it, this Bible verse clearly affirmiated the sun's motion around the earth, in addition to making Galileo a bonified heretic. ... However, it is also important to understand that no matter how convincing Galileo's argument for a sun-centered unive...

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This is where the sun is the center, rather than the sun. ... Galileo also found that Venus had phases just like the Moon; this meant that it had to be orbiting the sun. He also discovered that the sun had spots on it that could be used to see how the earth orbits around it. ... He also proved that the sun was the center of the galaxy. ... http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/-history/Mathematicians/Galileo.html. ...

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This was the idea that the earth was not the center of the universe, but the sun was. ... "Galileo Galilei is often called "the first scientist"," (Galileo Galilei: Super Scientist in History http://www.llnl.gov/llnl06news/Community/super_science_newsletter/) for all the work he did and because, he was on the front line of new and advanced technology paving the way for others to come. ... "Galileo's discoveries were very controversial, as they indicated that the Earth was not the center of the Universe: Venus orbited the Sun, small moons orbited Jupiter, and thus, he argued, it was more n...

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For centuries humans have looked up at the sun, the moon and the stars, but we could only see what our eyes allowed us to see. ... Telescope History. ... Retrieved April 19, 2014, from http://www.aip.org/history/cosmology/tools/tools- first-telescopes.htm...

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