Stone to Silicon

Math & science · 1610

Sidereus Nuncius

Galileo sees Jupiter's moons, lunar mountains and countless stars.

Four moons circling Jupiter showed that not everything orbits the Earth, and the phases of Venus followed later that year. The book made telescopic observation a public source of evidence.

See it in the living treeWikipedia

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 1

What it led to 2