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AncientPages.com - Christiaan Huygens was born in Hague on April 14, 1629. He was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist best known for his contributions to mathematics and
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AncientPages.com - On 25 August 1609, precisely 410 years ago today, the Italian astronomer and philosopher Galilei Galileo showed Venetian merchants his new invention, a telescope, an important instrument
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AncientPages.com - On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Earth, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the Hubble Space Telescope. This image of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Nimrud lens is 3,000-year-old object that could re-write the history of science. Although the telescope was officially invented in the 16th century,
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