Dec 22, 2009
Article abstract: Lippershey, a lens grinder and spectacle maker, generally receives credit for the invention of the telescope and binoculars in 1608.
Hans Lippershey was born in Wesel, Westphalia, around the year 1570. Almost nothing is known about Lippershey’s life, but it is apparent that between 1570 and 1608, Lippershey became a master lenscrafter and spectacle maker and established a shop in Middelburg, the capital of the province of Zeeland, in the United Provinces. In Lippershey’s shop, many different kinds of glass lenses were...
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