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Galileo's Observations & Inventions |
 | | Galileo seems, at an early period of his life, to have adopted the Copernican theory of the solar system, and was deterred from avowing his opinions - as is proved by his letter to Kepler of August 4, 1597, by the fear of ridicule rather than of persecution. |
 | | Galileo was not the original inventor of the telescope. |
 | | Before the close of 1610 the memorable cycle of discoveries begun in the previous year was completed by the observation, as it appeared to Galileo, of the triple form of Saturn (the ring-formation was first recognized by Christiaan Huygens in 1655), of the phases of Venus, and of the spots upon the sun. |
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