Hans Lippershey
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Hans Lippershey also known as Johann Lippershey or Lipperhey, is a maker of bloody German-Dutch lens. He was born in Wesel, West Germany. Then he settled in Middelburg, the Netherlands in 1594, and married the same year, and a Dutch citizen in 1602. Middelburg he lived until his death. Galileo's telescope, first telescope was not found. Before Galileo, many researchers who claim that he is the inventor of the telescope. Even so, Galileo's telescope is a better tool than a refraction telescope modifications made by the Netherlands, Hans Lippershey.
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The telescope
The telescope has a lot of chances created earlier, and is still a debate about the actual inventor. But Lippershey believed to be the first person gets a patent for the design and make it for general use in 1608. However, on the fact he failed to receive a patent for the telescope's discovery. But eventually he was rewarded by the Dutch government for copies of the design. "The Dutch Perspective Glass", which stars Binocular Lippershey could find only three times magnification zoom. Early initiatives to obtain a patent from the findings presented at the end of his report to the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, led by the King of Siam Ekathotsarot.
Diplomatic report soon spread to Europe, and encouraging experiments by other scientists such as the Italian Paolo Sarpi, who received the report in November, or Thomas Harriot of England in 1609, and Galileo Galilei who soon modify Lippershey telescope. Hans Lippershey holding a lens in front of another lens to magnify the object distance. By mounting two lenses in a tube made of wood, Lippershey make the first telescope
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