The first Telescopes
The first telescope was probably invented in 1608 by a Dutch maker of spectacles named Hans Lippershey. He made his telescope by putting two lenses with slightly different shapes at opposite ends of a tube. The following year, after hearing about Lippershey’s invention, an Italian scientist named Galileo made his own telescope.
Galileo was one of the first people to use the telescope to look at objects in the sky. He made many important discoveries, such as the craters on the moon and the spots on the sun.
Galileo discovered four of Jupiter’s moons and learned that they went around the planet. He was the first to notice that Venus had phases, very much like our moon. He also discovered that the Milky Way Galaxy consisted of many stars.
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