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4. He discovered the phases of Venus: Although lesser known than the discovery of Jupiter’s moons, the discovery of Venus’s phases is more significant, in that it not only contradicted the geocentric model of the universe, it confirmed a prediction of the heliocentric model of the universe – the idea that the sun, not Earth, is at the center. 4
In Aristotle’s (and later Ptolemy’s) geocentric model of the universe, Venus rides on a circle called an epicycle and the center of Venus’s epicycle rides on a circle called a deferent around Earth: 5
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