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Refracting Telescopes - Caltech Astronomy
RefractingTelescopesENCYCLOPEDIA OFASTRONOMY ANDASTROPHYSICSR efracting TelescopesNobody is sure of the date when the first telescope wasmade. It may be as far back as the early 1550s, when thereis evidence that a telescope of some sort was constructedin England by Leonard Digges, but it is all very uncertain,and the first telescope of which we have definite proof wasbuilt by the Dutch spectacle maker H Lippershey in soon followed and were turned toward the first systematic telescopic series of observations wasmade in early 1610 by Galileo; others had preceded him,but for skill and perseverance Galileo stands alone in thosevery early telescope was, of course, aREFRACTOR.
Refracting Telescopes ENCYCLOPEDIA OFASTRONOMY ANDASTROPHYSICS Refracting Telescopes Nobody is sure of the date when the first telescope was made. It may be as far back as the early 1550s, when there
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