How the Catalejo Was Born, the Invention that Changed the Way We Looked at the World

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At the beginning of the 17th century, while Europe was blazing between discoveries and wars, an artifact born almost by chance allowed us to see farther than ever before. The catalog, also known as "long-sighted eye", transformed navigation, astronomy and, by the way, the way we understand knowledge. It was not a renowned scientist who gave with it, but a curious craftsman.It ran in the year 1608. In the Netherlands, a young republic that flouri…