Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of Galileo ... as a search for "the old" (the universe's earliest ...

Shortly after he began producing his binoculars, news of the telescope reached Galileo. These days, the telescope is mostly closely associated with the night sky, but it's also useful on land and ...

When he was 28 years old, Galileo became a professor ... but Galileo would eventually prove otherwise. Galileo soon developed the strongest telescope the world had ever seen, and would prove ...

Thus was born the study of optics. In 1609, about a year after an unknown author made the very first attempt to patent a telescope, Galileo Galilei designed and built his famous instrument ...