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Discovery of Venus

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Galilei Galileo1610

Science / Astronomy

Galileo's observations of the phases of Venus proved that it orbited the Sun and lent support to (but did not prove) the heliocentric model. Galileo observes that Venus exhibited a full set of phases similar to that of the Moon

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Galilei Galileo

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