Galileo Galilei
1564-1642
*pioneered "experimental scientific method" and was the first to use a refracting telescope to make important astronomical discoveries
*discoveries using his new telescope, including the moons of the planet Jupiter and the phases of the planet Venus (similar to those of Earth's moon).
*Galileo's observations with his new telescope convinced him of the truth of Copernicus's sun-centered heliocentric theory.
* Galileo's support for the heliocentric theory got him into trouble with the Roman Catholic. Sentenced to life imprisonment.
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