Lippershey
Britishnoun
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They refused the patent, and though the discovery was soon found of value, Lippershey reaped no benefit.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake
In that year the children of one Jean Lippershey, an optician of Middelburg, in Zealand, were playing with his lenses, and happened to hold one before the other to look at a distant clock.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake
To Hans Lippershey, a Dutch optician, is accorded the honour of having constructed the first astronomical telescope, which he made so early as the 2nd of October, 1608.
From Moon Lore by Timothy Harley
The story is told that Lippershey, who was a spectacle-maker, stumbled by accident upon the discovery that when two lenses are held at a certain distance apart, objects at a distance appear nearer and larger.
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Henry Smith Williams
It seems practically settled that the first telescope was invented in Holland in 1608; but three men, Hans Lippershey, James Metius, and Zacharias Jansen, have been given the credit of the invention at different times.
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Henry Smith Williams
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