The Historic Galileo Telescope

With this historically accurate cardboard replica, you can directly experience the remarkable achievements of Galileo, which he accomplished despite the modest optical performance of this telescope by today's standards. The kit matches the size and optical characteristics of telescopes from that era and is based on the only surviving telescope that can be definitively attributed to Galileo, the oldest telescope in the world: a luxurious specimen covered in leather and adorned with gold embossing, created for Cosimo II de' Medici, which is now displayed in Florence.