The Telescope
By, Brooke Doehrmann
What Is The Telescope?
A telescope is an Instrument made to make things that are far away appear closer. It contains a variety of lenses and curved mirror lenses, it works when rays of light are collected and focused, and result in a magnified image.
Who was originally given credit for inventing the telescope?
Who is given credit for bringing the telescope to life/creating this new version?
In what year did the telescope originate?
About the telescope as is was in the Renaissance.
During the Renaissance after Hans Lippershey invented the telescope a man names Galileo and after hearing about the telescope he created his own model of the telescope after lippershey's. Galileo's telescope ended up being the first usable telescope for astronomical observations.
Even though Galileo Galilei was not the one to invent the Telescope, he did continue on discovering many new things such as the how the planets revolves around the sun and not the earth, or that the moon had huge valleys and craters. All of Galileo's discoveries were later made into a book names starry messenger in 1610.
During the Renaissance
How has the telescope changed through the years?
The Telescope has gotten bigger as time goes in allowing us to see father into space, and they have changed by giving us a sharper and clearer view of the things we are looking at. The telescope has also allowed us to see things that are normally impossible and invisible to see by the naked eye.