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Thu 03 Mar 2009Scientist with Irish link beat Galileo to the moon!
Galileo gets the credit for the first use of a telescope, but this record is held by an Englishman, Thomas Harriot, who lived for some time on the banks of the Blackwater in Co Waterford
IT IS 400 years since a scientist first turned a telescope on the heavens, and saw evidence of other worlds there. Ask most people who that scientist was, and they will name Galileo. But they would be wrong. A brilliant astronomer and mathematician who once lived in Ireland beat Galileo by several months.
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