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Galileo's impact on the universe as we know it was huge. The fact that the earth revolved around the sun was not known at the time of Galileo, and although Copernicus had created a heliocentric model of the universe before Galileo did, Galileo was the first to actually use evidence. By using the first functional teloscope, he proved that the Earth does actually move, and that the sun, not the Earth was at the center of the universe. Although his books were banned by the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope, and his ideas were shown as ludicrous, Galileo is still known as the "father of modern science."

He had many contributions in the fields of astronomy, by creating the teloscope, in the fields of mathematics and physics and philosophy. He disputed and disproved the ideas of Aristotle, which were held as true during the time. His revolutionary ideas changed the world we know today.

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