Galileo's Optic Tube News of the telescope's invention spread rapidly through Europe. By April 1609, three-powered spyglasses could be bought in spectacle-makers' shops on the Pont Neuf in Paris, and four months later there were several in Italy. They were made famous by an Italian professor and experimenter named Galileo Galilei in the summer of 1609 at the University of Padua near Venice. While Galileo did not invent the telescope, he did design and build telescopes with increasingly higher magnifying power for his own use and to present to his patrons. He was a skilled instrument maker, and his telescopes were known for their high quality. Galileo's first telescope was basically a tube containing two lenses. His first attempt was a three-power instrument; this was followed by one that magnified objects approximately nine times. He showed the latter device to the Venetian senate, hoping to impress them with its commercial and military potential. Observations with Galileo's telescope strengthened the new idea that the Earth and the planets circled the Sun. It also revealed multitudes of stars in the Milky Way and elsewhere. One seemed to see not a fixed sphere of stars, but a universe of stars extending outward to some vast and unknown distance, perhaps to infinity.
Galileo's telescopes Like the earlier Dutch versions, Galileo's refracting telescopes ("refractors") used lenses to bend, or refract, light. They featured a concave eyepiece lens and a convex objective lens. The telescope was fairly simple to make. Galileo, however, faced difficulties finding clear and homogenous glass for his lenses. The glass was full of little bubbles and had a greenish tinge (caused by the presence of iron impurities). This was a problem that troubled telescope makers for centuries. It was also hard to shape the lenses perfectly. The images of stars were blurry, and surrounded by color haloes. The limiting factor of these early refractors was their small field of view. Only part of the full Moon, for example, could be seen at one time. Galileo himself continued to improve his devices until they were over four feet long and could magnify up to thirty times.
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HANS LIPPERSHEY INVENTED REFRACTING TELESCOPE.
Galileo first invented what is recognized as the telescope.
Galileo was probably the first scientist to use a telescope.Telescopes were invented about 1608 by spectacle makers in the Netherlands. Galileo used one for astronomy the following year.Galileo .
The telescope was invented in 1608 not 2010. See related question.
Galileo Galilei didn't actually invent the telescope but he made vast improvements to the first design.
Galileo is credited with the invention of the Telescope. Galileo was Italian.
okay every one some people think Leonardo DA Vinci invented the telescope but it was really Sir Galileo sincerely, a girl ( a real girl no lies) Leonardo Da Vinci nor Galileo invented the telescope. All Sir Galileo did was improved it He did not invented it from a boy (a real boy is smarter than a girl)
The Italian scientist who invented the volt was Alessandro Volta
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I hate to break this to you, but no Canadian invented the telescope, because telescopes have been around longer than Canada has. One of the best claims on being the inventor of the telescope belongs to Galileo Galilei, who was Italian.
The first battery was invented around 1800 by an Italian scientist, Alessandro Volta.
The barometer was invented by Evangelista Torricelli
The Italian scientist Galileo Galilei invented the thermometer in 1596.
the first wet cell was invented in 1800 by an Italian scientist named Allesandra Volta.
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