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Light Fantastic – Galileo's telescopes

Galileo and his telescopes that changed our view of the solar system

In the first of three programmes about light at the forefront of scientific progress, Roland Pease visits Galileo's villa near Florence, Italy, where he spent the last years of is life, to see and learn about the telescopes that enabled Galileo to use light from distant objects to transform our view of the world

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