Download Galileo Galilei Telescope Invention Gif. Galileo is often incorrectly credited with the creation of a telescope. Naturally, galileo's telescope had some historical antecedents.

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Fine art images/heritage images/getty images. 15 februarie 1564pisa, ducatul florenței, italia. 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.

His work constitutes a significant break from that of aristotle and medieval philosophers and scientists.

But galileo galilei's friends convinced. At this point, however, galileo's career took a dramatic turn. (hans lippershey applied for the first patent in 1608, but others may have beaten him to. In it he reported on his observations of the moon, jupiter.