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 * [[image:diagram_of_the_universe.jpg]] || [[image:Telescope.jpg width="305" height="398"]] ||
 * This image is a diagram of the Copernican (heliocentric) model of the universe. Galileo supported the theory made by Nicholas Copernicus that the earth was not the center of the earth instead the sun was. The church was not too happy with this theory because it conflicted with the Bible. After Galileo published his most controversial book //Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican// it placed on the banned books list. The Office of Inquisition summoned Galileo to question whether he had defied the pope. Galileo contributed greatly to science during the Renaissance by questioning the standard scientific beliefs and using the scientific method the test his theories and prove them. || This image is a picture taken of the first telescope used to observe space designed by Galileo Galilei. He had many ideas about the universe such as the theory of Nicholas Copernicus that the sun was the center of the universe. Galileo got the idea for a telescope from "eye-glasses" used for theaters but figured out how to create a lens that would be able to see much further. Galileo discovered many new things about the universe such as Jupiter's moons, the moon was not smooth but had craters, and that the Earth was really not the center of the universe. ||