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∙ 2010-02-23 00:47:30Egyptians in Nabatea AROUND 6500 bce.
The Italian scientist Galileo Galilei is the first to record astronomical observations, back around 1610.
The Babylonians did the first recorded astronomical observations and for this they also invented the idea of angles and then decided to divide a circle into 360 degrees.
Astronomical observations.
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An observatory.
Galileo.
It focuses visible light.
Harriott is credited with early works in optics, and made the first illustrations of the Moon as seen through a telescope, some months before Galileo. His observations on sunspots were also the earliest, or perhaps THE earliest, on record. But he published none of his astronomical and scientific work, and his manuscripts were finally cataloged after his death. http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/harriot.html
The earliest record of a printed newspaper is in China.
You need to record observations by writing them and typing them.
There are two major astronomical observations of Galileo that supported a heliocentric cosmology. Galileo observed that Jupiter had moons orbiting it and that Venus had phases like the Moon.