History Of Telescopes
In 1609, an Italian mathematician named Galileo Galilee peered through an odd new device he
had invented to look at the stars in the night sky. Suddenly, this well known and familiar place
revealed itself as a barely exposed mystery. It was then that Galileo knew this was a ground
breaking device.
The moon is a gray-white orb to the naked eye. Looking through this new instrument, Galileo
was able to see shadows and bright spots on the surface of the moon. He could see that the
moon also had mountains and valleys.