. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. hical the fabrication of a better sort was long confined, almostsolely, to Galileo and those whom he immediately instructed;and so late as the year 1637, we find Gaertner, or, as he choseto call himself, Hortensius, assuring Galileo that none couldbe met with in Holland sufficiently good to show Jupitersdisc well defined ; and in 1634 Gassendi begs for a telescopefrom Galileo, informing him that he was unable to procure agood one, either in Venice, Paris, or Amsterdam. The instrument, on its firs
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. hical the fabrication of a better sort was long confined, almostsolely, to Galileo and those whom he immediately instructed;and so late as the year 1637, we find Gaertner, or, as he choseto call himself, Hortensius, assuring Galileo that none couldbe met with in Holland sufficiently good to show Jupitersdisc well defined ; and in 1634 Gassendi begs for a telescopefrom Galileo, informing him that he was unable to procure agood one, either in Venice, Paris, or Amsterdam. The instrument, on its first invention, was generally knownby the names of Galileos tube, the perspective, the doubleeye-glass: the names of telescope and microscope were sug-gested by Demisciano.—T. Drinkwater. Note.—The name telescope was employed by Galileo asearly as 1612, but was not used in English until forty yearslater. Sometimes the simple terms trunk and cylinder wereused instead. Milton and others call the telescope a micro-scope. The true microscope was invented by Zacharias Jansenin
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