Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

The unremarkable-looking object is in fact one of the most important artifacts in the history of science: it's one of only two surviving telescopes known to have been made by Galileo Galilei ...

Curious about what planets look like through a telescope? This guide breaks down what you’ll see based on your telescope’s ...

Galileo gave very few details of his observing ... The drive was then on to build bigger and more powerful telescopes with greater magnification. It was soon realized that what was to become ...

Galileo soon developed the strongest telescope the world had ever seen, and would prove the Church wrong. Though he had many breakthroughs in physics, it was his observations of the sky that ...

Second, you soon want a bigger telescope. Galileo, who first trained a telescope on the night sky 400 years ago this fall, pioneered this two-step program. First, he marveled at what he could see.

3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of Galileo—Earth's atmosphere. Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere ...

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics ... And he succeeded in making a telescope of the sort familiar to everyone today who has seen an elementary book on optics.