Monday, 8. January 2007
Topic: STRANGE - on January 8, 2007 at 7:53:00 AM CET
400-Year-Old Telescopes Appear in the Strangest of Places
Like cell phones or the Internet in recent history, the telescope's introduction in the early 17th Century had a swift and lasting impact on the world. Telescopes revolutionized military strategy and within months showed the father of astronomy, Galileo Galilei, that Earth is not the center of the universe.
Until recently, scholars thought only 8 or 10 of these important early telescopes _ made between 1608 and 1650 of tightly rolled paper and crudely ground lenses _ had survived to the present day.
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