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Persian astronomer Nasir al-Din al-Tusi aka Tusi builds the Rasad Khaneh observatory in the Ilkhanate Empire. English Franciscan friar Roger Bacon writes about the optics theory of Ibn al-Haytham in his Opus Majus or Greater Work. Polish friar Erazmus Ciolek Witelo writes his Perspectiva or Optics, in which he examines the ideas of Ibn al-Haytham. Tuscan Leonardo da Vinci sketches a building with an open roof to observe the sky with a concave mirror in his Codex Arundul. Italian scholar Girolamo Fracastoro explains the telescopic effect of a combination of lenses in Homocentricorum Seu de Stellis Liber Unus. Italian humanist Giovanni Rucellai explains the magnifying of insects by the use of concave mirrors. Italian polymath Giambattista della Porta shows his telescopic devices, the Concave Lenticular and Convex Lenticular, in his Magiae Naturalis orNatural Magic. English astronomer Thomas Digges refers in Pantometriato to the invention of the reflecting and refracting telescope by his father scientist Leonard Digges. Danish alchemist Tycho Brahe builds establishes the Uraniborg observatory and research institute. English mathematician William Bourne refers to the reflecting and refracting telescope ideas of Thomas and Leonard Digges. Dutch lensmakers Hans Lippershey, Jacob Metius and Zacharias Janssen invent the binocular telescope. Giambattista della Porta Della Porta writes his De Telescopiis in which he shows a telescopic device. Galileo Galilei invents the telescopium, an improved version of the Dutch binocular telescope. Also known as the Galilean or perspicillum. Galileo Galilei discovers the Moon's hills and valleys, the satellites of Jupiter and the phases of Venus with his telescopium.

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