Newly discovered 1666 manuscript may trace four-lens telescope experiments to Galileo

A potentially history-altering finding by a University of Limerick researcher may provide the most detailed technical ...
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Want to Build Your Own Telescope?

This Saturday is National Astronomy Day, the semi-annual event that celebrates the observation of the heavens. Science museums, universities, and astronomy groups have various events to pique public ...
Greek Reporter

Lost Manuscript on Galileo Galilei Could Rewrite Telescope History

A 1666 Mexico manuscript on Galileo Galilei describes a four-lens telescope that could push its invention back more than a ...
La Brújula Verde

A 1666 Manuscript From Mexico City May Rewrite the History of Galileo’s Telescope

Galileo Galilei is remembered for pointing a simple two-lens tube at the sky and changing astronomy forever. What he is not ...
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Space telescopes are great — so why do we still build ground-based ones?

At the dawn of the 17th Century, Galileo Galilei began the first major search of the night sky (as well as the Sun!) using a new Dutch invention — the telescope. In the era when William Shakespeare ...