The Mountain of Giants
The signal from Jupiter arrived on a Thursday in November 1685, and Arthur Hastings III was the only person in the Royal Society who knew it was a signal. He had recorded it himself, from the rooftop of his townhouse in Chelsea, using a telescope he'd built from parts he'd salvaged from his father's observatory and a set of lenses he'd commissioned from a Dutch optician who charged him double...
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