Galileo and the Telescope

Galileo is most famous for his defence of a sun centred universe, but he made many other contributions to astronomy. The biggest was popularizing the new fangled invention known as the telescope. Galileo saw with his telescope wonders vouchsafed to no one before him. Stars that had remained hidden from sight since the creation. Four moons thatr ed the planet jupiter,. strange appendages to saturn and spots on the supposedly perfect sun.