Telescopes
Telescopes have enabled us to gain an understanding of the solar system that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise. Hans Lippershey is often credited with the earliest designs for the telescope. There is some controversy about what role Lippershey actually played. What is clear is that he was not the first to build a sophisticated telescope. … Keep Reading → Galileo is credited with being the one to create a telescope powerful enough to be used to explore outer space. Galileo is credited with being the first to see craters on the moon. His later discoveries of the moons of Jupiter and sunspots on the Sun are among the most significant in astronomy. The telescope of Galileo has been compared to a modern pair of binoculars. It would magnify objects by looking through a number of glass lenses. It wasn’t until the work of Isaac Newton created the reflector telescope that the possibility of magnifications in the millions of times became possible; taking space observation to heights not before imagined.
