Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same ... Galileo's contemporary Johannes Kepler, a German mathematician, discovered a way to get beyond the magnification ...

The original instrument to occupy the 25-foot diameter dome was the 10.5-inch Bausch refracting telescope (f/15.5) installed in the brand new observatory in 1953. Bausch & Lomb Company gave the ...

In 1611, Johannes Kepler improved on Galileo's design ... and the majority of refracting telescopes are designed this way, even today. Early telescopes were all refracting telescopes of the ...