Origins Quiz — Tuesday, October 6, 2026

What word was coined in 1625 by Johannes Faber, a member of the same Roman academy as Galileo, for an instrument Galileo had been calling his 'little eye'? Faber built the new name to match the one the academy had already given Galileo's other instrument, which looked the opposite way.

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