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Michael Mosley finds out how to use an artillery ball to make a telescope lens
Michael Mosley follows in Galileo鈥檚 footsteps as he learns how to make a telescope lens. He takes a flat piece of glass and an artillery ball to a Venetian lens maker to find out how Galileo turned these raw materials into a lens fit for his telescope.
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