But the real Galileo, never tortured or excommunicated, remained a loyal Catholic throughout his life. He pursued all his bold investigations convinced that Nature followed a Divine order.

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Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.