Astronomical Fail [Limerick]

The astronomer Francesco Sizzi
worked himself into a tizzy:
"More rocks in space?
There're seven holes in a face!
Pssh! Galileo calls himself scientist, but is he?"

Note: When Galileo suggested Jupiter had moons, Sizzi summarily rejected the idea based on the “rationale” that there couldn’t be more than seven natural satellites because there are seven holes in a mammal’s head, seven days in a week, and [somehow] seven metals… ergo, seven astronomical bodies, maximum.

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