America 250: How has telescope technology evolved since the dawn of the U.S.?
via space.com
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The past 250 years of optical telescopes have seen revolutionary discoveries and technology that the telescope’s inventor, a seventeenth century spectacle-maker by the name of Hans Lippershey, maybe wouldn’t have believed possible. When we look back through the annals of telescope history, we find that a significant turning point came, coincidentally, just five years after […]