Galileo Galilei
Galileo built the first telescope in 350BC. He used it to survey the night sky.
No, Galileo did not invent the telescope. According to Wikipedia "The earliest known working telescopes appeared in 1608 and are credited to Hans Lippershey" Galileo was the first person to turn the telescopes to the night sky and make some pretty contradictory observations.
The first person to look at the night sky with a telescope and record what he saw and try to make deductions from his observations was Galileo Galilei. Galileo had a difficult personality and he tried to assert that he was the only person allowed to make astronomical discoveries with a telescope, but, putting that aside, he was a serious scientist who made several important discoveries in physics.
Galileo is the first person that we know of who pointed his telescope up. Or at least, he was the first person who wrote about doing so.
It was hell of a night ;)
Yes. If you know where to look, you can evensee it without a telescope, day or night.
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Galileo
Galileo did not invent the telescope. The Italian physicist and mathematician improved on an existing spyglass design to create a more powerful one: a refracting telescope that he then used to study the night sky.
He always had a fascination for the night sky, so he was excited about buying his first telescope.
refriacting telescope