Other problems Galileo would have to leave to others. One concerned magnification. In striving to make images he saw through his telescope ever larger, Galileo found that his field of view became ...

The telescope began as a relatively simple ... Even with relatively limited magnification, Galileo revealed the Moon's mountainous peaks, low valleys, and craters. Additionally, Galileo observed ...

The unremarkable-looking object is in fact one of the most important artifacts in the history of science: it's one of only two surviving telescopes known to have been made by Galileo Galilei ...

Here, Galileo took this crude device with ... The drive was then on to build bigger and more powerful telescopes with greater magnification. It was soon realized that what was to become known ...