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Was the telescope Galileo's idea

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14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

No, Galileo did not invent the telescope. According to Wikipedia "The earliest known working telescopes appeared in 1608 and are credited to Hans Lippershey"

Galileo was the first person to turn the telescopes to the night sky and make some pretty contradictory observations.

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