The space of night is infinite, The blackness and emptiness Crossed only by thin bright fences Of logic
— Kenneth Rexroth "Theory of Numbers"
Thanks to the much-heralded International Year of Astronomy, this much we know: Galileo used a telescope to observe the moon in 1609. But the inventor of the revolutionary resolutionary device remains unknown, and its early history is muddied by simultaneous discoveries and competing claims.
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