Renaissance+and+Reformation+Science

This is a picture of Galileo's telescope which he made in 1660. This telescope yielded a view of the universe that had never before been seen. It is crude by todays standards though but was very high tech back then.



Illustration of a steel sextant from Tycho Brahe's observatory, it was made in 1598. The sextant was used to measure angular distance between celestial bodies and altitude. Now they could see how far apart and how close or far stars were.

