All's not as it appears, this tale has many twists - but if I wasn't here documenting the story would that mean that the plot did not exist?
— Peter Hammill
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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