Lippershey

British  

/ ˈlɪpəsˌhaɪm, ˈlɪpəsˌhaɪ /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

The inventor of the telescope was a Dutchman named Hans Lippershey, who carried on the business of a spectacle-maker in the town of Middelburg.

From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel

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

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff

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 Harley, Timothy

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 Blake, John F.

It would seem from certain papers, now in the library of the University of Leyden, and included in Huygens's papers, that Lippershey was probably the first to invent a telescope and to describe his invention.

From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Williams, Henry Smith