WIKTIONARY: Etymology
tele- + -scope. From Latin telescopium, from Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος (tēleskopos, “far-seeing”), from τῆλε (tēle, “afar”) + σκοπέω (skopeō, “I look at”).
Coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani for one of Galileo Galilei's instruments presented at a banquet at the Accademia dei Lincei.
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