# Martin Horký

> Martin Horký was a Czech astronomer, astrologer, pamphleteer and traveler. He was notable for his early - and ultimately incorrect - criticism of Galileo Galilei's identification of the lunar mountains and Galilean moons of Jupiter. A pamphlet published by Horký, the Brevissima Peregrinatio contra Nuncium sidereum, is the first published work against a telescopic discovery.

*Bohemian astronomer*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Born:** 1578
- **Status:** unknown
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Martin Horký was a Czech astronomer, astrologer, pamphleteer and traveler. He was notable for his early - and ultimately incorrect - criticism of Galileo Galilei's identification of the lunar mountains and Galilean moons of Jupiter. A pamphlet published by Horký, the Brevissima Peregrinatio contra Nuncium sidereum, is the first published work against a telescopic discovery.

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