The Historical Galileo Telescope - AstroMedia
AstroMedia Kit for a cardboard replica of the telescope that started modern astronomy.
Perfected and sensational
In 1609, Galileo Galilei perfected the telescope invented a year earlier in Holland and pointed it at the night sky. His discoveries - craters on the moon, crescent phases on Venus, moons around Jupiter - were a scientific sensation and founded a new astronomy that still shapes our view of the world today.
On Galileo's tracks
With this historically accurate cardboard replica, you can directly experience Galileo's great research achievements, despite the modest optical performance of this telescope by today's standards. The kit corresponds in size and optical properties to the telescopes of the time and is based on the only surviving telescope that can be attributed to Galileo with certainty, the oldest telescope in the world: a magnificent copy covered in leather and decorated with gold embossing for Cosimo II de Medici, which is now on display in Florence.
For tripod observations, we offer an inexpensive tripod adapter.
| Aspiration scale: | Medium |
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| Time Line: | 2,0 Hours |
pre-cut and printed cardboard sheets
for assembly, 6 x DIN A4
with detailed assembly instructions
with two glass lenses and cardboard sheets for building a wall and table mount
magnification: 12x
Dimensions of the assembled item:
Length: up to 7.8 cm, diameter: approx. 4 cm
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