Hans Lippershey

Hans Lippershey (also: Jan Lippershey, Hans Lippershey, John Lippershey, according to ADB: Hans Lipper Home, Hans Laprey; * about 1570 in Wesel, † September 1619 in Middelburg ) was a German - Dutch spectacle maker and the inventor of the Dutch telescope.

Life

Lippershey emigrated in 1594 to Middelburg in the present province of Zeeland and settled there as a spectacle maker. On October 2, 1608, he offered the advice of Zeeland to an instrument for seeing into the distance and was awarded the contract to customize this instrument. Already in the following year, the so-called " telescopes " Lipperheys were sold in Paris. 1609, Galileo Galilei with a Lippershey replica of an astronomical breakthrough.

Lippershey not received the patent applied for his telescope, however. The reason for this was that he did not (more) was the only one in October 1608, which refers to the art of building telescopes, mind. In addition to Hans Jacob Lippershey collected Adriaanszon called Metius of Alkmaar, and to have Zacharias Janssen invented the claim that the telescope.

The dispute over the priority for the invention of the telescope was first presented in 1655 in a book. This bears the title De vero telescopii inventore and was written by Pierre Borel. In this book there is also a picture Lipperheys.

The lunar crater Lippershey and the asteroid ( 31338 ) Lippershey are named after him.