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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.
17 kwi 2023 · It is not known who first invented the telescope, but Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey (or Lipperhey) was the first person to patent the telescope in 1608. His device, called a kijker...
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] .
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.
3 lip 2019 · Phoenicians cooking on sand first discovered glass around 3500 BCE, but it took another 5,000 years or so before glass was shaped into a lens to create the first telescope. Hans Lippershey of Holland is often credited with the invention sometime in the 16 th century.
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.
In fact, later that month, a second Middelburg lens-grinder, Jacob Adriaenszoon or Metius (after 1571–1628) filed a patent request of his own; and a third Middelburg spectacle-maker, Zacharias Janssen (1588-1630), was promoted as the true inventor of the device sometime later.
