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Today we know that the Earth rotates around the Sun, but people did not always believe
this. In the 16th century, it was believed that the Earth was the center of the universe. For many
years, no one could prove whether the Sun rotated around the Earth or the opposite. That
changed when Hans Lipperhey, who was a Dutch eyeglass maker, invented the telescope in 1608
(26)_______, at around the same time, another eyeglass maker claimed that he invented the
telescope and the microscope. That man was Zacharias Janssen who lived in the same town as
Lipperbey. In the end, Hans Lipperhey was (27) _________ as the inventor of the telescope and
Zacharias Janssen as the inventor of the microscope.
In 1609, Galileo Galilei, (28)_________ was an Italian astronomer, heard about the
telescope and decided to make one himself. His telescope could make objects twenty to thirty