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When was the telescope invented during the Scientific Revolution? The telescope was invented in 1608. How did the telescope contribute to scientific exploration?
Many types of telescopes were developed in the 20th century for a wide range of wavelengths from radio to gamma-rays. The development of space observatories after 1960 allowed access to several bands impossible to observe from the ground, including X-rays and longer wavelength infrared bands.
telescope, device used to form magnified images of distant objects. The telescope is undoubtedly the most important investigative tool in astronomy. It provides a means of collecting and analyzing radiation from celestial objects, even those in the far reaches of the universe.
1970 – First telescope launched into space onboard probe Uhuru. This was also first gamma-ray telescope ever to be used. 1990 – Hubble telescope launched into Earth’s orbit. It quickly became one of the most famous and most important telescopes ever to be built.
With James Webb, we’re able to peer farther than ever across the universe, spying some of the first galaxies to form after the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago. Today, NASA has multiple...
Phoenicians cooking on sand first discovered glass around 3500 BCE, but it took another 5,000 years or so before glass was shaped into a lens to create the first telescope. Hans Lippershey of Holland is often credited with the invention sometime in the 16 th century.
This web exhibit from the American Institute of Physics explores the history of cosmology from ancient Greek astronomy to modern space telescopes.
The telescope emerged from a tradition of craftsmanship and technical innovation around spectacles and developments in the science of optics traced back through Roger Bacon and a series of Islamic scientists, in particular Al-Kindi (c. 801–873), Ibn Sahl (c. 940-1000) and Ibn al-Haytham (965–1040).
Visit the Royal Observatory to see its diverse collection of telescope types and functions, including the telescope with which James Bradley discovered the aberration of light, telescopes for amateur and professional astronomers, and telescopes for everyday use on land and at sea.
The most significant contribution to the development of the telescope in the 18th century was that of Sir William Herschel. Herschel, whose interest in telescopes was kindled by a modest 5-cm Gregorian, persuaded the king of England to finance the construction of a reflector with a 12-metre (39-foot) focal length and a 120-cm mirror.