Why Did Galileo's Discovery of the Moons of Jupiter Support

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Essay

Why did Galileo's discovery of the moons of Jupiter support the heliocentric model?

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Definitions:

Perception

The organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information to understand the environment.

Stimulus

Any event or situation that evokes a response from an organism.

Sensation

The method through which sensory receptors and the nervous system detect and depict external environmental stimuli.

Gestalt Psychology

A theory of mind and brain proposing that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies; or, the idea that the whole is more than the sum of its parts.