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Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius (The Sidereal Messenger) is published. In the book Galileo describes his discoveries of four moons revolving around the planet Jupiter. These discoveries support the Copernican heliocentric theory, which proposed that Earth and the other planets revolve around the Sun. (For centuries astronomy had been based on Ptolemy’s theory that Earth was the center of the universe and motionless.) The book is one of the scientific texts considered foundational to the Enlightenment. | Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius (The Sidereal Messenger) is published. In the book Galileo describes his discoveries of four moons revolving around the planet Jupiter. These discoveries support the Copernican heliocentric theory, which proposed that Earth and the other planets revolve around the Sun. (For centuries astronomy had been based on Ptolemy’s theory that Earth was the center of the universe and motionless.) The book is one of the scientific texts considered foundational to the Enlightenment. | ||
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The Age of Enlightenment was influenced by the growth in scientific knowledge that began in the mid-17th century. People looked for reasons why things happened the way they did. Modern chemistry and biology grew out of this questioning and the existing knowledge about astronomy and physics was greatly improved. | |||
