Galileo was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher that contributed a lot of obvservations to the field of astronomy. One of his major contributions were improvements to the telescope and his support of the Copernican model. For these reasons he is nicknamed "The Father of Modern Obvservational Astronomy." Using his telescope he made keen observations of the phases that Venus goes through as it orbits around the sun. He also discovered that the sun has sunspots on its surface. He also saw that Jupiter had moons that orbited around it. His obvservations with this telescope lead to futute astronomers to make even more discoveries. As a child he thought of being a priest but his father pushed him to go into the medical field. Once this didnt go as planned he later found his talent in the sciences. Galileo is accredited for his important and basic discoveries in astronomy.
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