After replicating Lippershey's "looker," Galileo set about improving the design. He built increasingly powerful telescopes, ultimately building devices capable of magnifying the cosmos to 30 times ...

Building a better refractor The spyglass-turned-telescope had limitations, some of which Galileo was able to design around. To reduce distortions such as elongations and blurriness caused by the ...

"Star Gazing" explores the life and contributions of Galileo Galilei, highlighting his groundbreaking discoveries in astronomy and the challenges he faced from the scientific community and the church.

Galileo Galilei was born on February 15 ... Galileo soon developed the strongest telescope the world had ever seen, and would prove the Church wrong. Though he had many breakthroughs in physics ...

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.