Step 1 : Introduction to the question " Who described Saturn’s rings as "ears"? "
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When Galileo viewed Saturn through his telescope about 400 years ago, he wrote that the gas giant planet had "ears." Those ears, elongated bulges on either side of the planet, were Saturn's rings. Galileo could not discern the rings through his small telescope. Today, amateur astronomers using small ground-based telescopes to professional astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have gazed upon Saturn and its magnificent rings.
Galileo was born in Pisa, Tuscany, on February 15, 1564, an Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method. His formulation of (circular) inertia, the law of falling bodies, and parabolic trajectories marked the beginning of a fundamental change in the study of motion.
Finally, his discoveries with the telescope revolutionized astronomy and paved the way for the acceptance of the Copernican heliocentric system, but his advocacy of that system eventually resulted in an Inquisition process against him.
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Step 2 : Answer to the question " Who described Saturn’s rings as "ears"? "
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