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 The Wars of Religion 653 book by a cardinal and had dedicated it to the Pope, the Catholic as well as the Protestant theologians declared that the new theory did not correspond with the teachings of the Bible, and they therefore rejected it. But we know now that Copernicus was Fig. 223. Galileo right and the theologians and universities wrong. The earth is a mere speck in the universe and even the sun is a relatively small body compared with many of the stars, and so far as we know the universe as a whole has no center. The Italian scientist Galileo (i 564-1 642), by the use of a Galileo little telescope he contrived, was able in i6io to see the spots