Galileo Telescope Reaches 400th Anniversary
Telescope is the first man to extend himself, to radically change our view of the heavens and our place in the world.
Exactly 400 years ago, 25 August 1609, Italian astronomer, mathematician, physicist and philosopher Galileo Galilei was the Venetian merchants of the new creation, telescope, an instrument of his at the same time - and the science of death, far more immediate problems.
The earliest known working telescopes appeared in 1608 and attributed to Hans Lipperhey. Among others, who claimed that the discovery was made by Zacharias Janssen, spectacle-maker of Middelburg, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar. The design of these early refractor telescope consisted of convex objective lens and a concave eyepiece. Galileo used the design of the next year. Galileo made the instrument famous. He built his first three-powered telescope in 1609, eight are used tool for the Venice of the Senate in August, eight p.m. and was driven instrument of the heavens in October or November.
Telescope was one of the most important tools of what is called a scientific revolution in the seventeenth century. It was a previously unsuspected phenomena in the sky, and had a significant impact on the dispute between the supporters of the traditional geocentric astronomy and cosmology, and those who prefer the heliocentric system of Copernicus.