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Cleaner air (hence less lenticular distortion) and no city lights to spoil night time viewing. Galileo's primary advantage was the use of a telescope. He was the first person to record astronomical observations made with the recently invented device. Aside from a few burning candles and oil lamps, there would have been almost zero light pollution back in the early 17th century. There would have been a lot of haze from fires used for cooking and heating, however, near any sufficiently large town.
Gallieo Galilei first observed that Venus has phases. This is due, primarily, to the fact that Venus is closer to the Sun than the Earth is. In order to display phases, particularly crescent phases, the observed object must be closer to the Sun than the observer.
Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy.
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The invention of the telescope is credited to Hans Lippershey. Crude telescopes and spyglasses may have been created much earlier by Dutch opticians, but Lippershey is believed to be the first to apply for a patent for his design. His telescope was made up of one convex lens and one concave lens.Galileo Galilei perfected it by using two convex lenses. He constructed his first telescope in 1609. This telescope is called the Galilean telescope or the refracting telescope.Isaac Newton invented a telescope which used two mirrors. He constructed his first telescope in 1669. His version of the telescope was called the Newtonian telescope or the reflecting telescope.
probably in his house. he was looking at the stars and figured out that when you hold two kinds of lenses in front of each other it magnifies it Galileos lived all his life in tuscony in Italy.
Cleaner air (hence less lenticular distortion) and no city lights to spoil night time viewing. Galileo's primary advantage was the use of a telescope. He was the first person to record astronomical observations made with the recently invented device. Aside from a few burning candles and oil lamps, there would have been almost zero light pollution back in the early 17th century. There would have been a lot of haze from fires used for cooking and heating, however, near any sufficiently large town.
Gallieo Galilei first observed that Venus has phases. This is due, primarily, to the fact that Venus is closer to the Sun than the Earth is. In order to display phases, particularly crescent phases, the observed object must be closer to the Sun than the observer.
Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy.
Zacharias Janssen and his son Johannes (Hans), spectacle makers in Holland, are usually credited with inventing the first compound microscope in about 1595. (Hans Lippershey a spectacle maker in the same city, Middelburg, Netherlands, also claimed credit for the invention but was perhaps more instrumental in the creation of the telescope.)Two decades later, Galileo Galilei built a compound microscope and changed the lens design lens (convex and concave lens).Galileo
Pisa
Zacharias Janssen and his son Johannes (Hans), spectacle makers in Holland, are usually credited with inventing the first compound microscope in about 1595. (Hans Lippershey a spectacle maker in the same city, Middelburg, Netherlands, also claimed credit for the invention but was perhaps more instrumental in the creation of the telescope.)Two decades later, Galileo Galilei built a compound microscope and changed the lens design lens (convex and concave lens).Galileo
Pisa, Italy
Mountaintop telescopes don't have to deal with the light from the city, so they get more of a clear night sky.
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