A Simple Device

It is a simple device really. Sitting in my Den, Waiting. It has few parts, certainly only a dozen major components. Anyone can use it. Which is probably what makes it such a dangerous object. Simple and dangerous. But it … Continue reading →

It is a simple device really.
Sitting in my Den,
Waiting.
It has few parts, certainly only a dozen major components.
Anyone can use it.
Which is probably what makes it such a dangerous object.
Simple and dangerous.
But it changed the world.
The revolution it began a little over 400 years ago is still working itself out, perhaps never to be concluded, a never ending cycle of change in ideas and beliefs, destroyed or created in its gaze.
It was the night of the 7th January 1610 that changed humanity forever and it was all down to the telescope.
Early star party?
It was a period of turmoil and change across Europe, religious upheaval and political turbulence were bringing conflict to most nations, just 8 years later the longest war in modern European history would begin and in England a future regicide was approaching his 11th Birthday.
Like all revolutions this one had its literature.
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