Lippershey
Britishnoun
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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
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 Williams, Henry Smith
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 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
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 Williams, Henry Smith
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