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People began to question the workings of the Universe, and they now had optical tools with which to study the heavens more closely. Yet, despite the evidence, there were many who did not accept the reality of what the newly invented telescope revealed about the Universe. Some had seen the power of the telescope with their own eyes but believed that it was trickery or the work of the devil. Galileo and others who supported the Copernican view that the Earth was a planet in orbit around the Sun were denounced as heretics. Even Galileo succumbed to pressure when he was asked by the Inquisition to refute the idea.