An Eye to the Stars


Hand in hand with the great Astronomer Italian

Galileo Galilei

(1564-1642)

He gave us this great invention, the first telescope.

It consisted of a simple tube with two lenses. It all started in 1609 , when Galileo listen to the news of an instrument capable of” near “the objects that are seen through it, thus building its first telescope in the summer of that year.

And with the invention of this simple artifact, the course of the Astronomy took off so dizzying

Tell me, please!
What do you think?
Have you ever used a telescope?

(Photo taken from Wikimedia, under the Creative Commons license)

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