Galileo's Telescope - 400th anniversary

by Kevin Fed | August 24, 2009 at 09:08 pm
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We are in the age of the space telescopes and beyond. However it all started 400 years back with the famous Mr Galileo's telescope. Galileo Galilei demonstrated his telescope, which lead him to make new astronomical observations.

Galileo Galilei did not invent the telescope but was the first to use it systematically to observe celestial objects and record his discoveries.

Heres paying tribute to Galileo and his telescope which sparked off the revolution in astronomy or space research.

While many people have been loudly celebrating this year's double commemoration of 200 years since Charles Darwin's birth and 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species, another scientific anniversary has crept up relatively quietly, marking an event which arguably changed human thought and the way we see ourselves even more irrevocably.

Exactly 400 years ago today, on 25 August 1609, the Italian astronomer and philosopher Galilei Galileo showed Venetian merchants his new creation, a telescope – the instrument that was to bring him both scientific immortality and, more immediately, a whole lot of trouble.

A refinement of models first devised in the Netherlands, Galileo's slim, brown stick was puny even by the standards of something one might buy in hobby shop today. But his eight-powered telescope, and the more powerful models he soon produced, when pointed skywards led Galileo to a series of groundbreaking conclusions.

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Amitjha

Looking beyond limit is more about insight, and telescope helped in justifying that insight by helping in looking beyond.

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Absolute Fact

Galileo viewed Saturn, Venus, and Jupiter as well as the milky way. Where would we be today if it wasn't for Galileo Galilei? Source - <a href="www.absolutefact.com/Galileo's_Telescope.html">Absolute Fact</a>

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bieicons.com

great.

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worm wood

"... another scientific anniversary has crept up relatively quietly, marking an event which arguably changed human thought and the way we see ourselves even more irrevocably...."

But why is it that when research in science is leaning towards what the Holy Bible says, most people would not agree? This is due to their preconceived ideas about God and the Holy Bible due to misinterpretation from self-study or from religious leaders.

5The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. Ecclesiastes 1:5

The Holy Bible contains scientific facts that are now being proven by scientists.  It so happened that the Catholic Church back then interpreted the Holy Bible the wrong way.

4But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.  Daniel 12:4 (King James Version)

But as the knowledge progress, we are now understanding that:

"...The reality that the Bible speaks of scientific truth even before they were discovered by human science because such declaration came from an existing God.

(ISAIAH 40:22) It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: (KJV)

(JOB 26:7) He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. (KJV)...." Brother Eli Soriano.

While atheists and those who are embraces Charles Darwin celebrate,

"While many people have been loudly celebrating this year's double commemoration of 200 years since Charles Darwin's birth and 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species,..."

Though human science is still on the verge of discovering new things, the Holy Bible remains undisputed, and it also says this:

5My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.

 6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. Isaiah 51 (King James Version)

And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. Isaiah 30:18 (King James Version)

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. Habakkuk 2:3 (King James Version)

The telescope some people celebrates, but the Living God who made man, they never given thanks.

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pancho

Felicidades para galileo :)    

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Amy Judd

Sorry I missed this, good post!

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