Galileo's telescope on historic visit to Philly
Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 16:49
in Astronomy & Space
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Though it looks like a cardboard tube that got left out in the rain, it's a priceless instrument whose owner changed the world. The mottled brown cylinder on display at The Franklin Institute science museum is a 400-year-old telescope used by Galileo Galilei, whose observations of the heavens ultimately changed the face of not only astronomy but all of science....