the invention of the telescope An eye looking

the invention of the telescope An eye looking at the heavens!

Outline: • • • Hans Lippershey Experiment that led to the invention Transfer of technology Galileo Galilei Discoveries! Conclusions

Hans Lippershey • Born about 1570 in Wezel, Germany. • Moved to middelburg, Holland in 1600. • Spectacles maker. • Discovered arrangement of convex and concave lens to see distant objects. • Died in 1619.

Galileo Galilei • • • Born Feb. 15, 1564 in Pisa Italy. Mathematician and philosopher. Great renaissance engineer. Got interested in spectacles. Made first telescope almost immediately.

Galileo’s discoveries • Pointed his telescope to the heavens. • Discovered the moon’s relief and its oceans. • Studied the solar system particularly. • Discovered three of Jupiter’s moons.

Discoveries (cont’) • Read about Copernicus’s theory: • -The earth is a sphere • -The earth is not the center of universe. • Galileo supported this theory. • Led to trouble with the church. • Galileo had visual proof with telescope.

Conclusions • Many discoveries made thanks to the telescope, from Galileo’s spectacles to today’s space telescopes. • This invention had many repercussions on the way people thought about the universe. • Discoveries are still taking place!!

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