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Hans Lipperhey[a] (c. 1570 – buried 29 September 1619), also known as Johann Lippershey or simply Lippershey, [b] was a German - Dutch spectacle-maker. He is commonly associated with the invention of the telescope, because he was the first one who tried to obtain a patent for it. [1] .
In 1655, the Dutch diplomat William de Boreel tried to solve the mystery of who invented the telescope. He had a local magistrate in Middelburg follow-up on Boreel's childhood and early adult recollections of a spectacle-maker named "Hans", who he remembered as the inventor of the telescope.
3 lip 2019 · He called it a "looker" (in Dutch, that would be "kijker"). Its invention immediately led to the development of spyglasses and other magnifying devices. It was the first known version of what we know today as a "refracting" telescope. Such a lens arrangement is now common in camera lenses.
18 sie 2023 · However, the first recognisable telescope device that used a convex lens and a concave lens set in a long tube is generally thought to have been invented in 1608 by Hans Lippershey (c. 1570 to c. 1619) in the Netherlands.
In that report it was described how watch-maker and master lens-grinder Hans Lippershey has managed to combine specially crafted lenses to create first working model of telescope. Hans Lippershey was born in 1570 in Wesel, Germany.
13 mar 2018 · In 1608 a spectacle maker called Hans Lippershey applied to the Dutch government for a patent for a device for seeing at a distance. His application was refused and, in the resulting publicity, the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) became aware of the device.
1608 — Hans Lippershey, a Dutch lensmaker, applies for a patent for a perspective glass "for seeing things far away as if they were nearby", the first recorded design for what will later be called a telescope. His patent beats fellow Dutch instrument-maker's Jacob Metius 's patent by a few weeks.
