Those with a rudimentary understanding of history might claim that it was Galileo Galilei who ... getting credit as the inventor who kickstarted the evolution of the telescope.

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

Instead, they offered him payment in exchange for developing a binocular form of his invention. Shortly after he began producing his binoculars, news of the telescope reached Galileo. These days ...

In 1609, the world witnessed an amazing achievement: An Italian inventor with ... tools for himself, Galileo Galilei pointed it toward the skies and shattered prevailing philosophies about the world.