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   by throw1002a 9y ago

   @namarie got it right. Per Part 3 in the series: In the second episode, we saw a slew of new telescopic discoveries during 1610-1611; viz., the mountains on the moon, the Medicean stars, and (more decisively) the phases of Venus. Now the
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   by throw1002a 9y ago

   Also perhaps of some interest: > Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love is a book by Dava Sobel. It is based on the surviving letters of Galileo Galilei's daughter, the nun Suor Maria Celeste, and
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   by throw1002a 9y ago

   I highly recommend (sci-fi author) Micheal Flynn's (long-ish) chronological timeline on the series of events that led the general consensus going from Ptolemaic system to heliocentrism: * http://tofspot.blogspot.com/201