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Show Telescope Traced Back to Seventeenth Century By the aid of a grunt from the Rockefeller foundation to Leyden university uni-versity enough funds have been collected col-lected to enable the university observatory observ-atory to build its own telescope at Johannesburg, In South Africa. As we know, many of our scientific Instruments In-struments had their origin In far-off centuries, hut surprisingly enough the telescope does not seein to have been developed until the Seventeenth century. cen-tury. Although the famous traveler. Sir Itlchnrd Burton, claimed that the telescope was known to Arnblan scientists scien-tists ninny years before this time, the father of the modern Instrument was produced In 1G08 by Hans Lippershlem of Middleburg. At one t lie Importance Import-ance of the invention was realized, nnd telescopes were on sale In Purls wilhin u year. Galileo, the famous astronomer, heard of the Dutchman's Invention, and Immediately made u telescope himself, and on the first night that he used It, in 1010, discovered discov-ered three of Jupiter's moons. A year later Kepler Invented the astronomical telescope. |