Telescope above earth

History of Telescopes

  • Galileo

    Galileo

    used two lenses in a long tube to view objects ten times further away.
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    built the first reflecting telescope
  • William Herschel

    built a large reflecting telescope with a four-foot diameter mirror
  • Oberth and Spitzer

    Hermann Oberth proposed the idea of a space-based telescope
    in 1920 which was expanded by Lyman Spitzer.
  • Copernicus

    Copernicus

    The first space telescope was launched

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