AND AT THAT TIME IN ITALY...

AND AT THAT TIME IN ITALY...

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Of all the secrets of nature, the mystery of heaven seemed the most attractive. Flickering stars, vast celestial spaces at all times worried the minds of scientists. What is the structure of the Universe? To peep into these distant worlds!

At the same time, to which the stories of children-inventors from Holland belong, who, playing with glass lenses, made a telescope and a microscope, the scientist Galileo Galilei lived in Italy. Since childhood, he loved mathematics, mechanics, and was interested in physics.
 

Galileo and His Telescope
Galileo and His Telescope
 But most of all he was fascinated by astronomy. He became absorbed in the book of Copernicus, although it was forbidden: Copernicus allowed himself to speak out against religious ideas about the structure of the Universe. But the pursuit of truth was stronger than fear. And when Galileo became aware that a spyglass consisting of convex and concave glass lenses was invented in Holland, he immediately realized what a huge role this invention could play in astronomy.


Upon reflection, he soon made such a pipe himself. True, it brought objects near only three times. Galileo worked for a year to improve his device. Finally, he picked up such glasses that the pipe brought objects closer thirty times.

Milky Way
Milky Way
From this day, the scientist did not part with his pipe. What he saw was amazing. It turned out that there are much more stars in the sky than people see them. Galileo discerned thousands of previously unknown stars. Moreover, he argued that the white streak that encircles the sky - the Milky Way - is nothing more than a cluster of billions of stars. But before him, scientists claimed that the Milky Way is the evaporation of the Earth.

Galileo examined the Moon. On it, he saw mountains and huge depressions, which were like dried up seas.

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