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(believer in the Theories of Copernicus). No public sign of this belief was to

appear until many years later.

In the summer of 1609, Galileo heard about a spyglass that a Dutchman had shown

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in Venice. From these reports, and using his own technical skills as a mathematicians and

a workman, Galileo made a series of telescopes whose optical performance was much

better than that of the Dutch instrument. The astronomical discoveries he made with his

telescopes were described in a short book called Message from the Stars published in

Venice in May 1610. It caused a sensation. Galileo claimed to have seen four small

bodies orbiting Jupiter. These last, with an eye on getting a job in Florence, he promptly

named the "the Medicean stars."

It worked, Soon afterwards, Galileo became "mathematician and Natural

philosopher," to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. In Florence he continued his work on

mation and on mechanics, and ...

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