The earliest existing record of a telescope was a 1608 patent submitted to the government in the Netherlands by Middelburg spectacle maker Hans Lipperhey for a refracting telescope. The actual inventor is unknown but word of it spread through Europe. Galileo heard about it and, in 1609, built his own version, and made his telescopic observations of celestial objects - https://telescope.ac/micro-blogger/
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We Crossed 1.5 °C. NOW What?
The global average temperature has risen about 1.55 °C ± 0.13 °C above pre-industrial levels, with some datasets estimating ~1.60 °C in 2...
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