It is actually quite easy to make a timeline with regards to the invention of the telescope as well as how it has evolved over the years. Much has been written about the telescope and good records have been kept with regards to new technologies and inventions. Basically, the telescope timeline looks something like this:
1609 - Galileo first invented the telescope. Though it was crude, it still did the trick and allowed him to look into space for the very first time other than with the naked eye. Galileo’s telescope was a reflecting one causing light to bounce off a mirror when looked at through a lens.
Mid-1600’s - Johannes Keplar came up with the idea of a refracting telescope that would widen the field of view as well as improve the quality of the image. He did this by changing the shape and the placement of the lenses, but doing this caused little circles of color that would surround bright objects - chromatic aberration.
Late 1600’s - As the century began to draw to a close, telescope makers were realizing that with a bigger lens, you could see much more. With a bigger lens, the […]

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