GK
SOLAR SYSTEM
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compass
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geometry
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microscope
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telescope
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1609, he first learned of the existence of the spyglass, which excited him. He began to experiment with telescope-making, going so far as to grind and polish his own lenses. His telescope allowed him to see with a magnification of eight or nine times.
Detailed explanation-2: -Like the earlier Dutch versions, Galileo’s refracting telescopes ("refractors") used lenses to bend, or refract, light. They featured a concave eyepiece lens and a convex objective lens. The telescope was fairly simple to make.
Detailed explanation-3: -Galilean telescope, instrument for viewing distant objects, named after the great Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), who first constructed one in 1609. With it, he discovered Jupiter’s four largest satellites, spots on the Sun, phases of Venus, and hills and valleys on the Moon.