Book of Donmon Teith

This remarkable history encompasses not only the achievements of the early inventors and astronomers but also the less frequently recounted stories of the instr

The origins of the telescope have been discussed and debated since shortly after the instrument's appearance in The Hague in 1608. Civic and national pride have

Ours is an age of science and technology, based on precision instruments. The first such device to strengthen our feeble human senses in our striving to compreh

Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky was ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo’s Tele

Tells the story, visionary by visionary and discovery by discovery, of the telescope, one of the few inventions that have revolutionized our view of the univers