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Online Database Allows Scientists To Recreate Early Telescopes
sciencehabit writes "When Galileo Galilei shook up the scientific community with evidence of a heliocentric world, he had a little tube fitted with two pieces of glass to thank. But just how this gadget evolved in the nascent days of astronomy is poorly known. That uncertainty has inspired a group of researchers to compile the most extensive database of early refracting telescopes to date. Now, the scientists plan to use modern optics to recreate what Galileo — and the naysaying observers of his time — experienced when they first peered through these tubes at the rings of Saturn, the moons of Jupiter, and the phases of Venus."
I suspect that you'd have to punch a curator and run to take some of those pieces outside...
And travel to Florence to do it.
Why can't she come to me? Lazy cow.
No, wait, that was Ermintrude.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.