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#OTD in 1609.

Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope, with a magnification of about 8 or 9, to Venetian lawmakers.

Based only on uncertain descriptions of the first practical telescope which Hans Lippershey tried to patent in the Netherlands in 1608, Galileo made a telescope with about 3x magnification. He published his initial telescopic astronomical observations in March 1610 in a brief treatise entitled Sidereus Nuncius.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereus_Nuncius

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