Peoria Riverfront Museum - The telescope was invented in 1608 by Hans Lippershey of the Netherlands. Having heard about Lippershey's invention, the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei built his own telescope in 1609
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HANS LIPPERSHEY or LIPPERSHEIM Dutch spectacle maker, credited with invention of the telescope (1608) Date: 1570? - 1619 Stock Photo - Alamy
Astronomy/Astrophysics History - Johannes Lippershey (c.1570-c.1619) demonstrated a new invention, the first optical (refracting) telescope - prototype of the modern telescopes - to the Netherlands States General. Lippershey was a lens grinder
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