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THE DAY IN HISTORY · JANUARY 7

January 7 in history

What happened on January 7: 1 moment from the Maps of History atlases, in 1610, each linked to the map that shows it.

Galileo turns his telescope on Jupiter and finds four moons that do not orbit the Earth — and the old cosmos begins to give way.

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