History of the telescope received the report in November, and the English mathematician and astronomer Thomas Harriot, who used a six-powered telescope by the summer of 1609 to observe features on the moon. The Italian polymath Galileo Galilei was in Venice in June 1609 and there heard of the "Dutch perspective glass" by means of which distant objects appeared nearer and larger. Galileo states that he solved the problem of the construction of a telescope the first night after his return to Padua from Venice and made his first telescope the next day by fitting a convex lens in one extremity of a leaden
A Trip to the Moon (Chronicle) A Trip to the Moon (Chronicle) A Trip to the Moon is a 1964 television science fiction comedy film, produced as an episode of the CBS series "Chronicle". The script was written by Jonathan Miller and Robert Goldman, based on Jules Verne's novel "From the Earth to the Moon". All characters are portrayed by Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Miller, and Dudley Moore, who had first worked together in the revue "Beyond the Fringe". The hour-long show adapts the plot of Verne's novel to comment satirically on the Moon race then underway between the United States and the Soviet Union, juxtaposing