Italy · Science / Technology. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The Venetian senate examines Galileo's telescope. Demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers, his work on the device made for a profitable sideline with merchants who found it useful for their shipping businesses and trading issues
Galileo along with Englishman Thomas Harriot and others are among the first to use a refracting telescope as an instrument to observe stars, planets or moons. Builds his own telescope, has 20x magnification
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