Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

After building his first telescopes, Galileo demonstrated the new instrument ... That discovery helped support a heliocentric model of the solar system — a belief so radical at the time that ...

The unremarkable-looking object is in fact one of the most important artifacts in the history of science: it's one of only two surviving telescopes known to have been made by Galileo Galilei ...

At nearly 10,000 feet above sea level - and almost 6,200 miles (10,000 kilometers) from Rome - you’ll find the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), part of the Mount Graham ...

By the 17th century, famed engineer and astronomer Galileo Galilei refined Copernicus' heliocentric model using observations made with telescopes he built himself. However, it was not until Kepler ...