Scholasticism and European universities of the past had taught primarily from old commentaries and studies and were not interested in trying to gather new information. Many scholars had come to the conclusion that there was no new knowledge to be gained from nature. However, during the Age of Discovery and the scientific revolution that followed, this ancient authority was virtually destroyed. The “new world” of the Americas and Australia was first discovered and studied at this time, filling Europe with knowledge of new plants, animals, and human groups. However, some of the greatest amounts of new knowledge came not from the ocean, but from the sky. The newly invented telescope, first made by Galileo, opened up a vast sea of ​​​​new information about the planets, their surfaces and their movements. By proving that nature still had abundant information to discover, the scientific revolution went against old scholastic ideas.