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Invention
The telescope was first used in 1608. It allows us to observe celestial objects thanks to the basic laws of optics. The characteristics of lenses and mirrors are studied. Lenses refract light just like a prism does and mirrors reflect images. -
Galileo
Galileo Galilei, born on February 15, 1564 in the Duchy of Florence, and died on January 8, 1642 in Arcetri, Italy. He was an Italian astronomer, engineer, mathematician and physicist, related to the scientific revolution. -
What was it useful for?
The people of that time were able to begin to understand the true nature of the celestial bodies that surround us and our location in the universe. -
Coppernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473 and died on May 24, 1543. He was a Polish-Prussian Renaissance polymath, dynamic as a mathematician, astronomer and Catholic canon, who developed the heliocentric theory of the solar system. -
Invention
Heliocentrism is an astronomical model according to which the Earth and the planets move around the relatively stationary Sun, which is at the center of the universe. Historically, heliocentrism was opposed to geocentrism, which placed the Earth at the center. -
What was it valid for?
The heliocentric theory was valid to give rise to classical physics