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
The Brueghel Moon The Brueghel Moon The Brueghel Moon is a 2007 magic realist novel by Georgian writer Tamaz Chiladze. Novel was published in 2015 in United States by Dalkey Archive Press. Tamaz Chiladze presents a work that blends the genres of post-modernism, magical realism, and science fiction. "The Brueghel Moon" is a novella about a psychiatrist, Levan, who has a former patient, Nunu, visit him, then he goes to a garden party, and gets involved with the wife of an ambassador, Ana-Maria. The narrative switches around, first person, second person, third person, back to first. The reader sees inside Levan and Nunu's