Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say ... times (12 divided by four). Galileo played with this formula until, by the late fall of 1609, he'd made a spyglass that ...

On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated ...

Shortly after he began producing his binoculars, news of the telescope reached Galileo. These days, the telescope is mostly closely associated with the night sky, but it's also useful on land and ...

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics ... above everything, measure. In 1609 came the most sensational discovery of his life. He heard of a Fleming who made a “spy-glass” and ...

The date was August 25, 1609 when Galileo, the chair of mathematics at Italy's University of Padua, presented an improved version of a Dutch telescope to the city-state government in Venice. It's ...

I am Galileo Galilei, a scientist from Italy ... Oh and don't forget to tune in in 1609, to see my 'How To' film on creating your own telescope. Bye-ee! This vlog style film recreates a famous ...

Galileo Galilei was born on February 15 ... Galileo soon developed the strongest telescope the world had ever seen, and would prove the Church wrong. Though he had many breakthroughs in physics ...