Lippershey

British  

/ ˈlɪpəsˌhaɪ /

noun

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

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Lippershey

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

During the year 1608 one Lippershey, a Hollander, discovered that, by looking through two glass lenses, combined in a certain manner together, distant objects were magnified and rendered very plain.

From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper

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

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

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 Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

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