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Consider how Galileo felt when he pressed his eye to his home-made telescope and trained it on the Moon.
It was rudimentary, even by today’s most modest of amateur instruments. Two simple lenses in a metal tube, and nine times magnification. For the first time, though, someone could make out the details of our celestial twin, a form that until then had been little more than a smooth, luminous alabaster disk.
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