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Hans Lipperhey is most often credited with inventing the telescope. However, Pierre Borel in his 1655 book said that Zacharias Janssen was its creator.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) made telescopes to study the skies. What this Italian scientist discovered using them undermined fundamental beliefs about the universe.

The work of Italian scientist Galileo ushered in a period of rational thought backed up by scientific observations that persists to this day. The Church didn't like it.

Consulting the world's first astronomers for knowledge of science and law that has sustained the planet's longest enduring civilisation.

With his telescope Galileo discovered craters on the Moon, spots on the Sun, Moons of Jupiter, phases of Venus, and stars in the Milky Way.

There are now only eight official planets in the solar system. Where did Pluto go? And what about those new planets they keep announcing?

Between about 1550 and 1700, knowledge and understanding of the sciences underwent colossal upheavals as ideas sanctioned by the Christian Church were challenged.

Brief biography of Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, who advanced the Copernican Theory but believed that the Earth was still the centre of the universe.