This Day In Astro History

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There are important times in astro history without actual dates: for example:

1813 – William Moore was a British mathematician and early contributor to rocket theory.He worked at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. His 1813 Treatise was the first exposition of rocket mechanics based on Newton’s third law of motion. Little is known of his life, because many relevant historical documents were destroyed by German bombing in World War II. (wiki)

1668 – First reflecting telescope. England Isaac Newton.

1610 – First telescopic observation of the night sky: discovery of the Galilean moons, lunar craters and the phases of Venus. Venice Galileo Galilei

12th Century – Bhāskara II was an Indian polymath, mathematician, astronomer and engineer.