400th Anniversary of Galileo’s Telescope

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August 25th, 2009
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Google Today (25th August, 2009) Celebrates the 400th Anniversary of Galileo’s Telescope by displaying this logo on all its homepages.

Exactly 400 years ago today, on 25 August 1609, the Italian astronomer and philosopher Galilei Galileo showed Venetian merchants his new creation, a telescope – the instrument that was to bring him both scientific immortality and more immediately, a whole lot of trouble. Galileo’s discoveries were, perhaps predictably, not best welcomed by the Catholic church, and he spent the final decade of his life under house arrest. Read more on Wikipedia.