On this day in 1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope to the ruler of Venice, Leonardo Donato, and his council. Galileo had made the telescope by fitting a convex lens in one end of a lead tube and a concave lens in the other end. The prototype magnified by a factor of three. By 1610 he had boosted the magnification to a factor of 33 and discovered the moons of Jupiter.
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