I guess that’s a continuation of what Galileo shattered hundreds of years previously with his five observations through his homemade telescope that the Catholic Church was gonna burn him for.
From memory all these bodies were supposed to be “perfect and unblemished” or some such:
- lunar surface was textured
- Venus appeared as a crescent
- Jupiter had its own moons
- Saturn had “ears” (aperture was too small to resolve rings)
I think he means to say that you can see the texture with the naked eye. So should not have been controversial. But many such stories exist of controversies inside a normalized society.
From memory all these bodies were supposed to be “perfect and unblemished” or some such:
- lunar surface was textured
- Venus appeared as a crescent
- Jupiter had its own moons
- Saturn had “ears” (aperture was too small to resolve rings)
- Sun had spots