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| During that winter, he turned his telescope to the skies with startling results, some of which werecommunicated to the world in the Sidereus nuncius. Cosimo de Medici invited Galileo to return to Florence as Mathematician Extraordinary to the Duke, with no teaching duties and a large salary. |
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