https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks en-us The history of Galileo's telescope, with an animated simulation of how it worked. http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/esplora/cannocchiale/ Wed, 16 May 2007 18:06:15 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=15007 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=15007 The Institute and Museum of the History of Science, in Florence, is one of the foremost internatio nal institutio ns in the history of science, combining a noted museum of scientific instrument s and an institute dedicated to the research, documentat ion and disseminat ion of the history of science in the broadest senses. https://www.museogalileo.it/en/index.html Wed, 16 May 2007 18:04:31 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=15006 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=15006 The Vikings could have been using a telescope hundreds of years before Dutch spectacle makers supposedly invented the device in the late 16th century -- a remarkable possibility which emerged from a study of sophisticated lenses from a Viking site on Gotland. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/702478.stm Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:50:50 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=13324 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=13324 The Museum, part of the University of Bologna's Department of Astronomy, houses a collection of astrolabes, gnomons & sundials, clocks, astronomical quadrants, telescopes, armillary spheres, globes, maps, and other mathematical, meteorologic, topographic and nautical instruments. http://www.bo.astro.it/dip/Museum/english/index_1.html Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:46:36 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=13322 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=13322 A chronological history of the invention and development of the telescope, and a bibliography on the history of telescopes and astronomy . http://www.antiquetelescopes.org/history.html Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:39:36 GMT https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/link.php?action=detail&id=13314 https://moas.atlantia.sca.org/archive/wsnlinks/comments.php?id=13314