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4. He discovered the phases of Venus:<br />

Although lesser known than the discovery of Jupiter’s moons, the discovery of Venus’s<br />

phases is more significant, in that it not only contradicted the geocentric model of the<br />

universe, it confirmed a prediction of the heliocentric model of the universe – the idea<br />

that the sun, not Earth, is at the center.<br />

4

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