Making the far near The invention that set the stage ... Standing on shoulders Both types of telescopes—Galileo's refractor and Newton's reflector—underwent improvements in the coming centuries.

Invention of telescopes has led to historic breakthroughs in astronomy The first telescope was invented by a Dutch optitian in 1608, which later enabled closer observations of celestial bodies than ...

When the Royal Society heard about Newton’s telescope they were impressed ... Newton and Leibniz had quarrelled over who invented calculus. Now Newton saw a way to triumph over his intellectual ...

First Invented In 1608, By Hans Lippershey There ... where it hits a mirror and is bounced to an eyepiece at the side of the telescope. Newton presented his device to the Royal Society in 1672 ...