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The telescope, Siderius Nuncius, the Letter on Sunspots. (4/8)

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Certainly without intent of doing new natural philosophy, Galileo starts to play with the spyglass – the telescope – and made a host of extraordinary, epochal discoveries. Published in the Siderius Nuncius, these garnered Galileo international fame, pretty much instantly.

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