'Reviving' Galileo's First Telescopes

The International Year of Astronomy is well underway, and one of the initiatives meant to celebrate the 4 centuries that passed since Galileo first studied the skies, using nothing more than a basic telescope, is to attempt to rebuild that device, and to get a glimpse of how the world could b... [ read more >> ]

A replica of Galileo's first telescopes, on display in a museum

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A replica of Galileo's first telescopes, on display in a museum