Hans Lippershey: A History Of The Telescope

Although, Galileo did not invent the telescope, he is thought as the inventor of the telescope. Hans Lippershey was the person who invented the telescope in 1608. Galileo learned about the spyglass in 1609. He thought that learning about spyglass was so exciting and interesting. His interest of the spyglass led him to the discovery of improving the telescope. In order to discover deeper, Galileo began to experiment with making the telescope and polished the lenses of his own telescope to increase the range about eight to nine times further. Due to Galileo’s improvement of his telescope’s range, he was the first person to discover sunspots, to see the moon’s craters, and to keep on track of the phases of

Galileo used the telescope to prove his evidence surrounding the Copernicus theory. In 1609, Galileo made his first telescope after hearing about Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey who made the original. Galileo's telescope was capable of magnifying up to 8 times, whereas Lippershey's telescope could only magnify up to 3 times. On the 8th of August 1609, Galileo presented his new invention to the Senate in Venice. When the Senate saw the power of Galileo's telescope, they doubled his salary to help him improve. Although Galileo's telescope wasn't the first, he was the first to make it public, and present it to mainstream

Galileo(1564-1642) Made the telescope better and he used the telescope to observe planets, and he proves kepler’s theory, saw the imperfection of planets, and saw a storm on a planet also saw craters.

1 Galileo - Used a telescope to confirm the findings of the Polish astronomer Copernicus.

This program is being presented in over 750 planetariums around the world as part of the “International Year of Astronomy”. Basically, it has been four hundred years since Galileo Galilei invented the telescope and planetariums are celebrating the invention with this presentation. This program was well worth the time to see because it provided a relaxed and interesting learning experience for all in attendance.

Herschel began to use the small telescopes they had in those days in order to observe the sky. These telescopes could only see so far, which made Herschel very frustrated because he could not see the stars and the planets as well as he would have liked to. In 1773, Herschel started to build his own telescope with the help of his siblings. His telescope became more advanced than the telescopes that were available at that time and was able to see farther into

Diffusion and syncretism played a big role in his knowledge and modification of the telescope as we know it today. He used the description of the spyglass he heard of from Jacques Badovere, a french nobleman, to create his telescope. Though surprisingly the spyglass did not originate in Italy or France, the invention is actually credited to Hans Lippershey a German-Dutch spectacle maker from the Netherlands. His idea diffused from the Netherlands to France, then to Italy where Galileo then modified it to observe the moon and stars in the night sky. Originally the spyglass was simple and crude, only able to magnify objects by a small percentage.

Other telescopes at the time magnified objects three times. Galileo used his improvement to study the sky. He also invented the pump and the hydrostatic balance. Galileo, with the help of his personal instrument maker, created and distributed more than one hundred copies of his military compass design. He also trained students to use his improved military compass between 1595 and 1598.

Him being a natural scientist he wanted to create ways to make life easier. One of his most known inventions is the telescope. Galileo learned the art of lens grinding, after the discovery of an instrument found in the netherlands. The instrument was able to make distant objects appear closer and it made galileo want to master the secret invention. Thus, mastering the telescope, Galileo uses the telescope to see the moon has craters in it.

Galileo used the scientific instrument, that was only founded the year before by the Dutch, the telescope into a more powerful version. “When Galileo read of it, he quickly set about making a much more powerful version. The Dutch telescopes magnified images by 3 times; Galileo's telescopes magnified them by 8 to 30 times.”(Zax.[Database]) In 1609, Galileo built a telescope and observed the moon. With observing the moon he found and made drawings of the moon’s craters at different times each month. The following year, 1610, he announced that Jupiter had four moons of its own. Slowly pieces started coming together for Galileo. In 1611, Galileo found sunspots that would frequently appear through his telescope. After finding Jupiter’s four moons and sunspots, Galileo was thoroughly convinced that the sun is the center of the Universe, a theory that was first founded by Nicolaus

In 1609 he decided to make his own telescope to take a look at the sky, and shared his findings in a book called The Starry Messenger in 1610.

He wrote the book called “Astronomiae Pars Optica” in 1604. It is believed to be the first modern book of optics. It describes the inverse square law of light, the measurement used for the distances of galaxies and other celestial bodies, he described the process of human vision as well. This was likely inspired by his defective vision granted to him very early on in his life. He would also write the book “De nive sexangula” nine years later in 1611, the first book on the subject of crystallography. Today we know crystallography as the study of atomic and molecular structure, but this book was instead on his thoughts of the shapes of snowflakes. His thoughts on snowflake shape would later prove to help build the foundation for the modern study of crystallography. Galileo Galilei is credited with inventing the telescope in 1610, but it was Kepler who introduced several important improvements to the original design. One of the more obvious improvements would be one that increases the field of view. These improvements would later be the reason that the Kepler Telescope, a spacecraft and telescope that detects possibly Earth-like planets that rotate alien stars, to bear his

This allowed him to receive more income and more people started to recognize him. Galileo developed the universal law of acceleration, which all objects in the universe followed. In 1609, Galileo learned about the simple telescope that was already invented and so he created one of his own. He presented his work to some Venetian merchants, and they realized that the telescope could be used to spot ships and so they gave Galileo salary to make several of them. However, Galileo’s ambition pushed him to go further, and in the fall of 1609 he made the decision to turn his telescope toward the sky instead of looking at land. He became so interested in astronomy by looking through the telescope and found many discoveries. He wrote a book about all the things he learned like how the moon was not flat and smooth, but a sphere with mountains and how Jupiter had revolving moons, which didn’t revolve around the earth. His discoveries helped many people find out new things and make new discoveries of their own.

The telescope is an instrument which increases our ability to observe far away objects through the collection of electromagnetic radiation, the most prevalent type of telescope is the optical telescope which collects light, however there are other kinds of telescopes which collect UV and X -Rays. Optical telescopes use lenses to redirect light to a specified point. Different lenses are used for different magnifications of celestial objects. This essay will be mainly discussing optical telescopes.

Have you ever looked to the stars and wondered how we could ever see something so far away? Well we can, greatly in part to a man named Galileo Galilei. Galileo made many contributions to modern science. Probably the most well known of Galileo's contributions to science is the invention of the telescope. Galileo’s life consisted of many important events; there were two main people who helped him do what he did; he made many important inventions and discoveries; and his discoveries are the basis of modern astronomy.