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Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky was ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo’s Tele

An innovative exploration of the development of a revolutionary optical device and how it changed the world. Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky c

Digby and his sister Hannah stumble across Galileo's telescope in Mr. Rummage's flea market stall. This book relates the biography of astronomer Galileo in a ch

Annotation. In six years, Galileo Galilei went from being a mathematics professor to a star in the court of Florence to a target of the Inquisition. And during

In July 1609, Galileo Galilei received news that a Dutch optician had invented a device that allowed people to see distant objects as clearly as if they were ne