Galileo Galilei 1564 - 1642

Italy

Galileo developed the use of lenses to make simple telescopes. He used them to observe the stars and the planets.

He discovered that the moon had mountains and craters, and that Jupiter had moons orbiting it.

He put forward the idea that the earth and other planets orbited the sun.

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