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    Galileo's Telescope: A European Story
    Galileo's Telescope: A European Story
    Galileo's Telescope: A European Story
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    Galileo's Telescope: A European Story

    By Massimo Bucciantini, Michele Camerota and Franco Giudice

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    An innovative exploration of the development of a revolutionary optical device and how it changed the world.

    Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo’s Telescope tells the story of how an ingenious optical device evolved from a toy-like curiosity into a precision scientific instrument, all in a few years. In transcending the limits of human vision, the telescope transformed humanity’s view of itself and knowledge of the cosmos.

    Galileo plays a leading—but by no means solo—part in this riveting tale. He shares the stage with mathematicians, astronomers, and theologians from Paolo Sarpi to Johannes Kepler and Cardinal Bellarmine, sovereigns such as Rudolph II and James I, as well as craftsmen, courtiers, poets, and painters. Starting in the Netherlands, where a spectacle-maker created a spyglass with the modest magnifying power of three, the telescope spread like technological wildfire to Venice, Rome, Prague, Paris, London, and ultimately India and China. Galileo’s celestial discoveries—hundreds of stars previously invisible to the naked eye, lunar mountains, and moons orbiting Jupiter—were announced to the world in his revolutionary treatise Sidereus Nuncius.

    Combining science, politics, religion, and the arts, Galileo’s Telescope rewrites the early history of a world-shattering innovation whose visual power ultimately came to embody meanings far beyond the science of the stars.

    Praise for Galileo’s Telescope

    “One of the most fascinating stories in the history of science.” —Mark Archer, The Wall Street Journal

    “In broad outline, the story of Galileo and the first use of a telescope in astronomy is well known. Bucciantini, Camerota, and Giudice take a new look at this seminal event by focusing on how the news spread across Europe and how it was received. Their well-written narrative examines the central issues using papers, paintings, letters, and other contemporary documents . . . After four centuries [Galileo’s] reputation has been thoroughly vindicated.” —D. E. Hogg, Choice
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 23, 2015
    ISBN9780674425460
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      A disappointing, dry academic description of Galileo's advancements with the telescope and it's impact on our understanding of the solar system. It pits advancement in technology against religious dogma. Galileo had three things that lead to the great advancement. The first was the technical advancement in creating a more powerful telescope. Telescopes were stuck at 8x magnification. Technology lacked the understanding of how lenses worked and the skill to create better lenses. Galileo was able to advance the magnification up to 20x and still have a clear image.With that technology, Galileo also found things in the night sky that challenged the earth-centric view of the universe based on biblical dogma. One was features in the moon. It had mountains and features like Earth. The other was "planets" near Jupiter that followed Jupiter in the sky. The third was the scientific discipline to track the "planets" near Jupiter from night to night. By tracking the movement, he concluded that they were orbiting Jupiter. They were moons, just as Earth had a moon. That lead to the conflict the religious dogma that the Earth was unique and the center of the Universe. Others had observed that Venus had phases, indicating that it was orbiting the sun, not the Earth. The mechanical

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