Galileo's Innocence

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  1. 6. Galileo's last name
  2. 7. name of Earth's moon
  3. 9. a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star
  4. 12. German mathematician and astronomer who found the celestial mechanics
  5. 13. the book where Galileo proposed the idea of heliocentrism
  6. 15. an imaginary circle introduced with the purpose of reconciling the planetary movements with the hypothesis of uniform circular motion
  7. 16. Polish astronomer who first proposed that the sun is the center of the universe, not the Earth
  8. 17. having or representing the earth as the center, as in former astronomical systems
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  1. 1. Alexandrian astronomer who proposed the idea of having Earth as the center of the universe
  2. 2. Galileo observed the moons of this planet
  3. 3. an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified
  4. 4. having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system
  5. 5. what Galileo believe is the center of the universe
  6. 6. a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method
  7. 8. planetary orbit
  8. 10. an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination
  9. 11. shape of the track of how the planets orbit the sun
  10. 14. where we are on now