[share_ebook] The Origins of The Telescope (amsterdam University Press History of Science And Scholarship in The Netherlan)

by Olga Kravets (Editor), Pauline Maclaran (Editor), Steven Miles (Editor), Alladi Venkatesh (Editor)
The question of consumption emerged as a major focus of research and scholarship in the 1990s but the breadth and diversity of consumer culture has not been fully enough explored

The invention of the telescope has been by far the most revolutionary development in the history of astronomy. For thousands of years, astronomers had to rely on their eyes in unraveling the mysteries of the Universe. Then, 400 years ago, something entirely new happened: Galileo turned a homemade arrangement of magnifying glasses to the skies. The telescope revealed a wealth of astronomical riches, and led to a dramatic increase of knowledge about the wider world we live in.