"Back in 1610, perhaps the greatest discovery Galileo had made with the spyglass was the essentially four new worlds in the Jupiter system. The four new planets were the first four moons of Jupiter their significance to the case of Copernicanism was set up by Galileo. The moons in orbit around Jupiter also exposed the ancient fallacy that the earth was the center around which all revolved."
Jupiter

January 1, 1970

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