window.document.getElementById(’post-55′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Since the internet has created easy access to even a hobby such as practical astronomy, we have easy access to telescopes. Even some toy stores sell telescopes. The question comes to mind - do all these telescopes outperform Galileo’s telescope. Join me as we take a look.
When Galileo was born, there were no telescopes. There were no stores to go to, to buy a telescope. In fact at that time, the telescope was not invented yet. It was a frontier, like the invention of the computer.
When we think of Galileo, we often think astronomy, but his real life was a bit different at first. Most of Galileo’s time and energy was in mathematics and that is what he spent most of his time. In fact he became professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1589.
What made Galileo change from mathematics and physics to a big interest in astronomy was when he heard about the invention of the telescope in Holland in 1609. He managed to build his telescope within a year, and start making observations.
This is what is most interesting, in answering if today’s telescopes outperform Galileo’s telescope. In 1610 Galileo made observations of Mars […]

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