Making the far near The invention that set the stage for the telescope was the ... in use in the 21st century derive from the two types developed in the 17th century by Galileo and Newton, on ...

Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences. For centuries, celestial bodies have been observed and used to measure space and time. The invention of the telescope in the 17th century marked a turning ...

The Birth of Modern Science It was in the 17th century that modern science was really born, and the world began to be examined more closely, using instruments such as the telescope, microscope ...

[Christiaan Huygens] was a pretty decent mathematician and scientist by the standards of the 17th century. However, the telescopes he built were considered to be relatively poor in quality for the ...