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OCR: Galileo Galilei 564 1642) Galileo was a1 Italian the sun and was censured by the astronomer and physicist Church for his beliefs. physicist he discovered the laws of falling bodies the parabolic curve ofa projectile, and the three laws motion which were later confirmed by Newton an astronomer, he was the first to use the telescope to study the heavens He discovered sunspots determined that the Milky Wav IS made up of stars and observed that the moon reflects light and and has mountainous surface He supported the Copernican theory that the earth revolves around Calilei 1564 Calileo belicfs