The following timeline lists the significant events in the invention and development of the telescope.
A replica of Galileo's telescope
A replica of a second reflecting telescope Newton presented to the
Royal Society
in 1672 (the first one he made in 1668 was loaned to an instrument maker but there is no further record of what happened to it).
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The Oldest Observatory in the Americas is found in Bogotá, Colombia (1803).
