Did Galileo Invent the Telescope?

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	Did Galileo Invent the Telescope?

BartendingBear

8-25-2009 6:55 PM

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BartendingBear says:

Maybe not, but he changed the world.

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8-25-2009 11:40 PM

darkeforce

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8-25-2009 11:43 PM

BartendingBear

"That's what she said!"

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

8-26-2009 8:39 PM

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Who invented the telescope? Not Galileo. Who first pointed it at the heavens?  Again, it wasn't Galileo.  So then why do we honor him today?
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The first documented "spyglass" is generally credited to a Dutch lens grinder named Hans Lipperhey, who found that two lenses, properly placed, could magnify distant objects.  He applied for a patent in 1608.
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Likewise, an adventurous Englishman named Thomas Harriot (sometimes spelled Harriott) is generally given credit for reporting the first telescope observations of the moon.  His first <A target="external" href="http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/harriot_moon.html" linkindex="55">drawings</A>, complete with craters and renditions of the Sea of Tranquility where Neil Armstrong would later walk, date to July 1609.
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So what did Galileo do that is worth noting today?  Nothing much.  He just changed the world as western civilization knew it.
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