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An early history of the telescope. From 3500 B.C. until about 1900 A.D. Contrary to popular opinion, Galileo did not invent the telescope. In 1609 the great Italian scientist turned his telescope toward the stars and saw the craters of the moon, sunspots, the four large moons of Jupiter, and the ri...

  The Galileo Project > Science > The Telescope Johannes Hevelius observing with one of his telescopes [click for larger image] The Telescope The telescope was one of the central instruments of what has been called the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. It revealed hithert...

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The earliest known working telescope s appeared in and are credited to Hans Lippershey . Among many others who claimed to have made the discovery were Zacharias Janssen , a spectacle-maker in Middelburg , and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar . The design of these early refracting telescope s consisted of a c...