In The Starry Messenger, Galileo writes of new learning's that contradict the accepted ideas of his time. He felt so strongly about such things that he was tried as a heretic for them. He took the basic idea of a telescope and improved upon it by experimenting with lenses and shaving them to certain sizes...
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Through all of this experimenting he came up with a telescope that could see farther than anyone ever before him. He was able to come up with a method for measuring the distances between planets and fixed stars. One of his many discoveries was that the surface of the moon was not smooth. This is because his ability to see the craters and deep valleys of the moon allowed him to argue against common knowledge...
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