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A 1666 Manuscript From Mexico City May Rewrite the History of Galileo’s Telescope

4 September 2026 at 11:00
Galileo Galilei is remembered for pointing a simple two-lens tube at the sky and changing astronomy forever. What he is not remembered for is a four-lens telescope built more than a decade before historians thought such instruments existed — and yet that is exactly what a manuscript unearthed in Spain’s National Library now suggests he […]

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