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pradeep negi
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Posted 4 year ago
pradeep negi 
who invented telescope in 1608 ?
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Rahila Ahmed
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Posted 4 year ago Rahila Ahmed

Hans Lippershey

The first person to apply for a patent for a telescope was Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey. In 1608, Lippershey laid claim to a device that could magnify objects three times. His telescope had a concave eyepiece aligned with a convex objective
Nikku Yadav
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Posted 4 year ago Nikku Yadav

The history of the telescope can be traced to before the invention of the earliest known telescope, which appeared in 1608 in the Netherlands when a patent was submitted by Hans Lippershey, an eyeglass maker. Although Lippershey did not receive his patent, news of the invention soon spread across Europe. The design of these early refracting telescopes consisted of a convex objective lens and a concave eyepiece. Galileo improved on this design the following year and applied it to astronomy. In 1611, Johannes Kepler described how a far more useful telescope could be made with a convex objective lens and a convex eyepiece lens. By 1655,