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* 1610 – Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, and Io, sees Saturn's planetary rings ( but does not recognize that they are rings ), and observes the phases of Venus, disproving the Ptolemaic system, though not the geocentric model
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1610 and Galileo
Galileo used smaismrmilmepoetaleumibunenugttauiras for Altissimum planetam tergeminum observavi (" I have observed the most distant planet to have a triple form ") for discovering the rings of Saturn in 1610.
The four moons were discovered sometime between 1609 and 1610 when Galileo made improvements to his telescope, which enabled him to observe celestial bodies more distinctly than had ever been possible before.
On March 12, 1610, Galileo wrote his dedicatory letter to the Duke of Tuscany, and the next day sent a copy to the Grand Duke, hoping to obtain the Grand Duke ’ s support as quickly as possible.
Actual proof of the Milky Way consisting of many stars came in 1610 when the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei used a telescope to study the Milky Way and discovered that it is composed of a huge number of faint stars.
* 1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able distinguish the last two until the following day.
In his 1610 treatise Sidereus Nuncius, Galileo Galilei wrote, " the galaxy is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
In a letter to Galileo in 1610, he wrote, " Provide ships or sails adapted to the heavenly breezes, and there will be some who will brave even that void.
He is most remembered as the patron of astronomer Galileo Galilei, whose 1610 treatise, Sidereus Nuncius, was dedicated to him.
It was the last planetary satellite to be discovered by direct visual observation ( as opposed to photographically ) and was the first new satellite of Jupiter since Galileo Galilei's discovery of the Galilean satellites in 1610.
* 1610 — Galileo Galilei uses a telescope to determine that the bright band on the sky, the " Milky Way ", is composed of many faint stars
Ludovico Ariosto, in his epic Orlando Furioso ( 1513 ), jestingly sent his hero to a Moon where everything lost on Earth eventually turns up ; but it was not until Galileo discovered ( 1609 – 1610 ) that the Moon had surface features, and that the other planets could, at least, be resolved into disks, that the concept that the planets were real physical bodies came to be taken seriously.
It was not until Galileo Galilei observed the moons of Jupiter on January 7, 1610, and the phases of Venus in September, 1610 that the heliocentric model began to receive broad support among astronomers, who also came to accept the notion that the planets are individual worlds orbiting the Sun ( that is, that Earth is a planet and is one among several.
Neither Ptolemy's Almagest nor Al Sufi's Book of Fixed Stars noted this nebula, even though they both listed patches of nebulosity elsewhere in the night sky ; nor did Galileo mention it, even though he also made telescopic observations surrounding it in 1610 and 1617.
Sidereus Nuncius ( usually translated into English as Sidereal Messenger, although Starry Messenger and Sidereal Message are also seen ) is a short treatise published in New Latin by Galileo Galilei in March 1610.
This led to a dispute with Galileo, who showed that Marius provided only one observation as early as Galileo's, and it matched Galileo's diagram for the same date, as published in 1610.
After heliocentrism was revived by Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century, Galileo Galilei discovered the four brightest moons of Jupiter in 1610, and documented their orbits about that planet, which contradicted the geocentric doctrine of the Catholic Church of his time, and escaped serious punishment only by maintaining that his astronomy was a work of mathematics, not of natural philosophy ( physics ), and therefore purely abstract.
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