400 Years Ago Galileo Invented The Telescope, Thanks Google
Visiting Google today, you might notice a telescope as the Google logo. If you click on the logo, you are taken to a search result on Google for Galileo’s telescope. 400 year ago today, in the year 1609, Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope. The Google logo, aka Doodle, reminds us of that time in […]
Barry Schwartz on August 25, 2009 at 9:42 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Visiting Google today, you might notice a telescope as the Google logo. If you click on the logo, you are taken to a search result on Google for Galileo’s telescope. 400 year ago today, in the year 1609, Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope. The Google logo, aka Doodle, reminds us of that time in history.
Here is the Google Doodle:
You can read more about Galielo’s contributions and the telescope at his Wikipedia entry.
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