Galileo Galilei the use of the compasses for 120 lire. In about 1593, Galileo constructed a thermometer, using the expansion and contraction of air in a bulb to move water in an attached tube. In 1609, Galileo was, along with Englishman Thomas Harriot and others, among the first to use a refracting telescope as an instrument to observe stars, planets or moons. The name "telescope" was coined for Galileo's instrument by a Greek mathematician, Giovanni Demisiani, at a banquet held in 1611 by Prince Federico Cesi to make Galileo a member of his Accademia dei Lincei. The name was derived from the
Hans Jacob Ulrich in that branch of art. Examples of his work exist in the museums of Orléans and Nantes. C. Huber etched a series of sixty plates from his designs. Hans Jacob Ulrich Hans Jacob Ulrich (1798 in Zurich – 1877) was a Swiss painter. Ulrich was brought up to be a merchant, but gave up business and devoted himself to painting. He travelled in France, Italy, England, and the Netherlands for improvement, and became a successful painter of landscapes, sea-pieces, birds, and animals. He was a professor at the Zurich Polytechnic. He was an exhibitor at the Salon between 1824 and