galileo adopted the copernican model, copernicus lived some decades before him and wrote this book. where all the planets including the earth revolved around the sun. now, people who objected to this raised a variety of objections. some of those were the following. he said wait a second, if the earth is really just another planet like all other planets, how come it is the only planet that has a mood. well, galileo saw that jupiter is not just one moon but four. , there were saying all well, if the earth were torevolve around the sun . surely it would have lost its moon. outcome that it manages to preserve its moon. well, here wasjupiter . revolving around something , you choose whether you want to make it revolve around the earth or the sun but obviously keeping its four moons. so that is that objection as well so this was extraordinarily important. it is less known that galileo also detected the planet neptune in 1612. this is a point that you see on the very left of the figure. he didn't recognize it as a planet because his telescope wasn't good enough at observation, not long eno