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First telescope was a refracting telescope-> uses converging lens to collect light

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First telescope was used by merchants to see if their were ships coming towards them.

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Galileo was the first person to use in the sky

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http://www.softschools.com/facts/space/telescope_facts/430/

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Four hundred years ago, the great astronomer and thinker Galileo Galilei presented his telescope to a world that had no idea how this piece of technology would change perceptions of man's place in the universe. For using this telescope caused Galileo to advance the theory that the Earth was not the center point of creation.

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The Galileo Project | Science | Telescope

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The telescope was one of the central instruments of what has been called the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. It revealed hitherto unsuspected phenomena in the heavens and had a profound influence on the controversy between followers of the traditional geocentric astronomy and cosmology and those who favored the heliocentric system of Copernicus.

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Spread throughout Europe
people could by many of them in the store quickly

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Glass became inexpensive, making it easier to create telescopes

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creation of cradtsmen not from scientists

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it revealed hitherto unsuspected phenomena in the heavens and had a profound influence on the controversy between followers of the traditional geocentric astronomy and cosmology and those who favored the heliocentric system of Copernicus.

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Invented in 1608 by Hans Lippershey

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Can make distant objects seem closer than they are