Inventor of telescope?

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Inventor of telescope?

Answer 1

Hans Lippershey is usually credited with this.  He was a Dutch spectacle maker.  There is a tale, thought to be apocryphal, that some children playing in his shop were the first to notice distant objects appearing closer, when they lined up different lenses and looked through them.  This would have been a refracting type of telescope.  Sometimes referred to as "Galilean" type of telescope, as he was first to record having used one on objects in the sky, and he popularized them.  

Issac Newton having heard of the invention, almost immediately thought of another way to do the same with a concave mirror, so he invented the "Newtonian" reflecting type of telescope.

Both kinds have been refined since then, to result in modern telescopes.  Other more complex designs have been invented since.

Answer 2

Hans Lippershey.  Eye glasses become spy glasses.  Sold to people who wanted to see the ships come in before anyone else.

Galileo heard about it and made his own.

Answer 3

Galileo

Answer 4

The first telescopes may have been Assyrian crystal lenses but the Visby lenses tentatively suggest that the technology was known to the Arabs and Persians. Leonard Digges is sometimes credited with the invention in England in the 1570s, but usually credit for assembling the first telescope is given to an unknown Dutch spectacle maker in about 1608. Some name that person as Hans Lippershey (c. 1570 – c. 1619), but Jacob Metius and Zacharias Jansen also claimed to have invented a telescope during the same period.

in between some one else i dnt remember his name he created a design and was published in his jounal some "scientifica"

Even if Lippershey did not make the first one, he publicized it. Galileo Galilei made his own telescope in 1609, calling it at first a "perspicillum," and then using the terms "telescopium" in Latin and "telescopio" in Italian (from which the English word derives). Galileo is generally credited with being the first to use a telescope for astronomical purposes. (Also the telescope was first used to spot ships.) Galileo's telescope consisted of a convex object lens and a concave eye lens, which is universally called a Galilean telescope (used as a viewfinder in many simple cameras). Later, Johannes Kepler described the optics of lenses (see his books Astronomiae Pars Optica and Dioptrice), including a new kind of astronomical telescope with two convex lenses (a principle often called the Kepler telescope). Optical interferometer arrays and arrays of radio telescopes were developed much more recently.

Answer 5

Here you go, from the web:

The history of the telescope dates back to the their invention in the beginning of the 17th century century. In the history of optics, the properties of lenses and mirrors as image forming devices had been known since antiquity and had been studied widely in the centuries preceding the telescopes development. Although there were some recorded instances of pre-17th century middle eastern and European opticians creating devices that could have functioned as telescopes, the earliest known working telescopes in the modern sense were refracting telescopes that appeared in the Netherlands in 1608. These were credited to three individuals, Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen, spectacle-makers in Middelburg, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar also known as Jacob Adriaanszoon.. Galileo greatly improved upon this design the following year. Niccolò Zucchi is credited with constructing the first telescope to use mirrors, a reflecting telescope, in 1616. In 1668 Isaac Newton designed an improved reflecting telescope that bares his name, the Newtonian reflector.

The invention of the achromatic lens in 1733 that corrected some of the color aberration of simple lenses allowed for more functional shorter refracting telescopes. Reflecting telescopes, although not limited by the color problems seen in refractors, were limited in their usefulness due to the fast tarnishing speculum metal mirrors used during the 18th and 19th centuries. The introduction of silver coated glass mirrors in 1857[2], aluminized mirrors in 1932[3], and the maximum physical size limit of the refracting telescope objectives, at around 1 meter (40 inches), meant almost all of the large research telescopes built since the turn of the 20th century have been reflectors.

The 20th century also saw the development of telescopes that worked in wide range of wavelengths from radio to gamma-rays. The first radio telescope went into operation in 1937. Since then a tremendous variety of complex astronomical instruments have been developed.