The European scholastics and universities of the past had taught mainly on the basis of old commentaries and studies and were not interested in trying to gather new information. Many scholars had come to the conclusion that new knowledge could not be acquired from nature. During the Age of Discovery and the subsequent Scientific Revolution, however, this old authority was almost destroyed. The "new world" of the Americas and Australia was first discovered and studied during this period, filling Europe with knowledge about new plants, animals, and human groups. Some of the greatest amounts of new knowledge, however, came not from the ocean, but from the sky. The newly invented telescope, first built by Galileo, opened up a vast sea of ​​never-before-seen information about the planets, their surfaces and their movements. By demonstrating that nature still had abundant information to discover, the Scientific Revolution went against that old Scholasticism