Early history of the use of the word "telescope"

in science •  7 years ago 

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on April 14, 1611, the Italian noble who is also a scienceist and naturalist federico angelo cesi for the first time using the word "telescope". at that time cesi was in a feast held by a pioneer of the scientific community, the linceans academy (or lynxes) which he became one of its founders. The banquet was held in honor of Galileo who developed the refractor telescope.

the audience was fascinated after the galileo showed jupiter satellites, other celestial bodies, even an inscription contained in a building located three miles from the scene. although the cesi that speaks to the audience, the word telescopio (in italy) is thought to have been made by a greek expert who happened to be present, from the Greek word "tele" meaning "distant" and scopeo "which means seeing the galileo refractor telescope is indeed making the human eye is sharper because it can see distant objects that the naked eye can not observe.

in 1625, another lincean member, giovanni faber of bamberg, found an equivalent word for another finding, the microscope.

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