biography
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Lippershey, Hans or Jan
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also spelled Lippersheim
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pronunciation:
[lipers-hay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1570–1619)
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| biography:
| Dutch optician, born in Wesel, W Germany. He is one of several spectacle-makers credited with the discovery that the combination of a convex and a concave lens can make distant objects appear nearer. He is believed to be the inventor of the telescope (1608), but this is unproven. Certainly, in 1608 he offered the government of The Netherlands what we would now call a refracting telescope. |
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