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To: servo1969

Today you can buy a telescope better than Newtons’ for about $50. Amazing what they were able to do with such crude instruments.


4 posted on 05/12/2015 8:50:04 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

The first observation (stellar aberration) that led to relativity was done in the 1700’s. The speed of light was first measured in the 1600’s by observing Jupiter’s moon Io.


5 posted on 05/12/2015 8:57:53 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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