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OCR: Galilei Galileo: (1564- 1642) Italian scientist and astrono mer who with the aid of telescopic instruments made important astronomical discoveries. Among other things, Galileo determined that millions of individual stars con- stitute the Milky Way; that the surface f the moon like that f the earth is covered with mountains; that sunspots mar the surface af the sun that the planet Venus, like our moon. undergoes phase changes Although these advance ments helped Galileo refute the Aristotelian casmic ma del, they also brought hinm intr conflict with the Catholic church and the Inquisition astrona cosmic into hurch