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    This document summarizes key details about the history of telescope development from Galileo to Newton. It provides questions to prompt the reader to explore an online resource on telescopes and learn about important milestones such as Galileo using a refracting telescope with two lenses to make astronomical observations, Kepler proposing ideas to correct chromatic and spherical aberration in telescope lenses, and Newton developing the reflecting telescope using a primary mirror made of metal to reflect light into a secondary mirror.

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    This document summarizes key details about the history of telescope development from Galileo to Newton. It provides questions to prompt the reader to explore an online resource on telescopes and learn about important milestones such as Galileo using a refracting telescope with two lenses to make astronomical observations, Kepler proposing ideas to correct chromatic and spherical aberration in telescope lenses, and Newton developing the reflecting telescope using a primary mirror made of metal to reflect light into a secondary mirror.

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    This document summarizes key details about the history of telescope development from Galileo to Newton. It provides questions to prompt the reader to explore an online resource on telescopes and learn about important milestones such as Galileo using a refracting telescope with two lenses to make astronomical observations, Kepler proposing ideas to correct chromatic and spherical aberration in telescope lenses, and Newton developing the reflecting telescope using a primary mirror made of metal to reflect light into a secondary mirror.

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    Telescopes From the Ground Up

    Introduction
    This site covers the history of telescopes in astronomy – from Galileo to Newton and beyond. Explore the
    various pages at the site to find the answers for the questions below.

    Go to this URL: http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/groundup/

    Click on
    We are going to begin with a close up examination of the basics.
    Click on “What do telescopes do?”
    1. A telescope collects and concentrates ___________________.
    2. Why is the amount of light that a telescope collects important?

    3. How does a telescope create an image?

    4. How did astronomers first record the images seen through their telescopes? How is it done today?

    Return to
    Click on “What makes a good telescope?”
    5. What four qualities make a good telescope?

    6. Describe each of the above qualities.

    Return to
    Click on the link to Galileo’s refracting telescope on the menu you see on
    your screen that looks like this.
    7. How many lenses did Galileo use to make his telescope?

    8. Was this the same or different from the telescope you made in class?

    9. What was different about the two lenses Galileo used in his telescope?

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    10. What problems did the shape of Galileo’s lens cause?

    Return to
    Check out the link to achromatic refractors next.
    11. How did telescope builders correct for spherical and chromatic aberration, building on an idea first
    proposed by Kepler?

    Return to
    Click on the link to the Newton’s Reflecting Telescope next.
    12. What was Newton’s primary mirror made out of?

    13. What is the purpose of both the primary mirror and the secondary mirror? Study the graphic and
    write an answer!

    Return to the homepage of Telescopes


    From the Ground Up.

    Please click on the link to Era of


    Galileo’s Refractor.

    14. When did Galileo make his first


    telescope?

    15. What were some of the things


    he saw through it in our night
    sky?

    16. Why was Galileo’s telescope called a refracting telescope?

    17. Why did Galileo begin making enemies as he shared details about what he was seeing?

    18. Whose controversial (at the time!) theory about the universe was Galileo uncovering evidence for?

    19. What was this evidence?

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    20. How did the Catholic Church react to Galileo’s findings?

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