38+ Galileo Galilei Telescope Drawing Images. In the spring of 1609 he heard that in the netherlands an instrument had been invented that showed distant things as though they were nearby. In 1610, italian astronomer galileo galilei looked up at the heavens using a telescope of his making.

Galileo And The Stars from galileo.rice.edu

A man with balding gray hair beard and mustache wearing a dark fuchsia shirt underneath a black coat with white collar brown pants that is tucked in a pair of white socks midnight blue shoes smiles while sitting behind a brown desk as he watches a brown ball spin. In 1574, the family moved. Galileo galilei, the father of modern astronomy, probably never dropped anything off the leaning tower of pisa, and he didn't actually invent the telescope.

But he did change history with his discoveries about the cosmos.

He was an italian scholar, philosopher, astronomer, physicist and engineer. In 1574, the family moved. He was an italian scholar, philosopher, astronomer, physicist and engineer. His book, sidereus nuncius or the starry messenger was first published in 1610 and made him famous.