Several men laid claim to inventing the telescope, but the credit usually goes to Hans Lippershey, a Dutch lensmaker. In 1608 he created an instrument consisting of a concave and convex lens in a tube.
Galileo Galilei improved on Lippershey’s design and was the first to point a telescope toward the sky. In 1609, having identified the moons in orbit around Jupiter, Galileo deduced that the Earth was not the motionless centre of the Universe.
Later, in 1668, Sir Isaac Newton improved on Galileo’s design.
His reflecting telescope used curved mirrors to focus light from the heavens.
Binoculars, first seen in Paris in 1823, consisted of a small telescope for each eye. However, the credit for the first real binocular telescope goes to J. P. Lemiere, who devised one in 1825.
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