Don't be bored. Go look through a telescope to celebrate its anniversary:
"In late August 1609, Galileo Galilei demonstrated his 8-power hand-built telescope to Venetian notables. (Note that the word "telescope" was actually coined in 1611, and that there were several terms such a "looker" used previously.) This won him a lifetime appointment to a university chair and raised his salary from 520 to 1000 florins per year. His built his first 3X telescope sometime in early 1609 after hearing about such "lookers" being built elsewhere in Europe."
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