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1 day ago · In 1610 Galileo Galilei observed with his telescope that Venus showed phases, despite remaining near the Sun in Earth's sky (first image). This proved that it orbits the Sun and not Earth , as predicted by Copernicus 's heliocentric model and disproved the then conventional geocentric model (second image).
- Galileo Galilei (Disambiguation)
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) was a scientist and...
- Vincenzo Gamba
In 1629, he married Sestilia Bocchineri (c. 1610–1669)....
- Polymath
Benjamin Franklin is one of the foremost polymaths in...
- Girolamo Borro
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About...
- Copernican Heliocentrism
Heliocentric model from Nicolaus Copernicus' De...
- Two New Sciences
Introduction. The book is divided into four days, each...
- Galileo Affair
Galileo before the Holy Office, a 19th-century painting by...
- Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems
Frontispiece and title page of the Dialogue, 1632. The...
- Vincenzo Galilei
Della musica antica et della moderna, 1581. Vincenzo Galilei...
- Galileo Galilei (Disambiguation)
2 days ago · In July 1610, the outnumbered Polish force comprising winged hussars defeated the Russians at the Battle of Klushino, which enabled the Poles to take and occupy Moscow for the next two years. The disgraced Vasili IV of Russia was transported in a cage to Warsaw where he paid a tribute to Sigismund; Vasili was later murdered in captivity. [83]
5 days ago · In 1610, the year after Galileo Galilei turned a telescope to the sky, he became the first person to observe Saturn's rings, though he could not see them well enough to discern their true nature.
5 days ago · Philip III ( Spanish: Felipe III; 14 April 1578 – 31 March 1621) was King of Spain. As Philip II, he was also King of Portugal, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia and Duke of Milan from 1598 until his death in 1621.
2 days ago · The Ayutthaya Kingdom ( / ɑːˈjuːtəjə /; Thai: อยุธยา, RTGS : Ayutthaya, IAST: Ayudhyā or Ayodhyā, pronounced [ʔā.jút.tʰā.jāː] ⓘ) or the Empire of Ayutthaya [23] was a Mon and later Siamese kingdom that existed in Southeast Asia from 1351 [1] [24] [25] to 1767, centered around the city of Ayutthaya, in Siam, or ...
3 days ago · The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version (AV), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of King James VI and I.
8 hours ago · The 2011 census recorded the population of England as 53.0 million, Scotland as 5.3 million, Wales as 3.1 million, and Northern Ireland as 1.8 million. [30] At the last recorded population estimate, it was estimated that the UK population was at a total of 67,081,234 people.
