Show telescope traced back to seventeenth century by the uld of a grant from rum the rockefeller to leyden erdity enough funds fund have been collected to enable the university observatory to build its own telescope at in south africa As we ve know many of 0 our scientific instruments st had their origin in ID far off centuries but surprisingly enough the telescope does not seem to have been developed until the seventeenth century although the famous traveler sir richard burton claimed that the telese telescope lele ope was known to Ar scientists many years before this time the fattier of the modern instrument woe was produced in by hatte hang lit of middleburg at one the import unee of the invention was realized and telescopes were on rule eule in paris ln a year galileo the foin fineou otic astronomer heard of the Dutchin ans invention and immediately made a telescope himself and on the first night that he be used it in 1010 ered cred three ot of Ju moons A year later kepler invented the telescope |