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OCR: GALILEO GALILEI (1564 1642) "HE WORK of Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (known Galileo) revolutionized astronomy. Galileo developed the telescope and made important discoveries about the planets and the sun. His observations confirmed the work of the Polish astronomet Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 1543 who believed that the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun This finding went against the Church teaching that the Earth is the center the universe and the Church punished Galileo Galileo suggested the use of the pendulum in clocks and also discovered an important principle about gravity that the rate at which an object falls 15 not related to its weight. ALSO STORY astronomer