Lippershey

British  

/ ˈlɪpəsˌhaɪm, ˈlɪpəsˌhaɪ /

noun

1. Hans. died ?1619, Dutch lens grinder, who built the first telescope

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Example Sentences

News had been rather slow to travel to Italy on this occasion, since Hans Lippershey, a spectacle maker based in Holland, had come up with the discovery by chance the previous autumn and in the spring of 1609 telescopes with a magnifying power of three times were being sold as toys in Paris.

From Literature

The telescope was invented by a Dutch optician named Hans Lippershey about three hundred years ago.

From Project Gutenberg

Galileo was not the original inventor of the telescope.1 That honour must be assigned to Johannes Lippershey, an obscure optician of Middleburg, who, on the 2nd of October 1608, petitioned the states-general of the Low Countries for exclusive rights in the manufacture of an instrument for increasing the apparent size of remote objects.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

They refused the patent, and though the discovery was soon found of value, Lippershey reaped no benefit.

From Project Gutenberg