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This man outlined his views about the Doctrine of Accommodation in a text written to Grand Duchess Christina. A military device that this man first demonstrated alongside Paolo Sarpi was preceded by one by Hans Lipperhey and was key to his writing Sidereus nuncius. Views advocated for by Urban VIII are related by the character of Simplicio in a book (20[1])by this man that led (20[1])to a trial where he supposedly muttered, "And (*) yet it moves." This lecturer at the University of Padua had his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems placed on the Index of Forbidden Books for its sympathetic treatment (0[1])of Copernicus's heliocentric system. For 10 points, name this scientist who used a telescope to discover the moons of Jupiter. ■END■ (10[1])

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