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Astronomy is the science of remote things. Except for the fruits of sample-return missions such as Apollo and meteorites gathered from the surface of Earth, we cannot touch our data. This makes the telescope not merely useful but essential and therefore powerful. Here is Galileo, writing in 1610: “This new artifice of the spyglass, derived from the most recondite speculations of perspective, brings visible objects close to the eyes.”
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Marett-Crosby, M. (2013). The Telescope Revolution. In: Twenty-Five Astronomical Observations That Changed the World. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6800-4_4
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