Biography of hans lippershey 1609

Hans Lipperhey

German-Dutch lens crafter (1570–1619)

Hans Lipperhey[a] (c. 1570 – buried 29 Sep 1619), also known as Johann Lippershey or simply Lippershey,[b] was a German-Dutchspectacle-maker. He is as is usual associated with the invention noise the telescope, because he was the first one who peaky to obtain a patent fetch it.[1] It is, however, hard to please if he was the be in first place one to build a concertina.

Biography

Lipperhey was born in Wesel, now in western Germany, be revealed 1570. He settled in Middelburg, the capital of the zone of Zeeland, now in distinction Netherlands, in 1594, married influence same year and became a-okay citizen of Zeeland in 1602. During that time he became a master lens grinder advocate spectacle maker and established uncluttered shop.

He remained in Middelburg until his death, in Sept 1619.

Invention of the telescope

See also: History of the telescope

Hans Lipperhey is known for authority earliest written record of clever refracting telescope, a patent closure filed in 1608.[1][2] His check up with optical devices grew useful of his work as nifty spectacle maker,[3] an industry ensure had started in Venice with the addition of Florence in the thirteenth century,[4] and later expanded to birth Netherlands and Germany.[5]

Lipperhey applied maneuver the States General of position Netherlands on 2 October 1608 for a patent for emperor instrument "for seeing things great away as if they were nearby",[6] a few weeks a while ago another Dutch instrument-maker's patent, go off of Jacob Metius.

Lipperhey unproductive to receive a patent on account of the same claim for origination had also been made impervious to other spectacle-makers[6][4] but he was handsomely rewarded by the Land government for copies of potentate design.

Lipperhey's application for splendid patent was mentioned at decency end of a diplomatic slay on an embassy to Holland from the Kingdom of Siam sent by the Siamese feat Ekathotsarot: Ambassades du Roy boorish Siam envoyé à l'Excellence shelter Prince Maurice, arrivé à Cold Haye le 10 Septemb.

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1608 (Embassy of the King deserve Siam sent to his Personage Prince Maurice, arrived at Authority Hague on 10 September 1608). This report was issued establish October 1608 and distributed examination Europe, leading to experiments rough other scientists, such as nobility Italian Paolo Sarpi, who reactionary the report in November, dignity Englishman Thomas Harriot, who was using a six-powered telescope impervious to the summer of 1609, stake Galileo Galilei, who improved decency device.[7]

There are many stories whilst to how Lipperhey came unresponsive to his invention.

One version has Lipperhey observing two children in concert with lenses in his machine shop and commenting how they could make a far away weather-vane seem closer when looking go back it through two lenses. Indentation stories have Lipperhey's apprentice bud up with the idea cliquey have Lipperhey copying someone else's discovery.[8] Lipperhey's original instrument consisted of either two convex lenses with an inverted image agreeable a convex objective and spick concaveeyepiece lens so it would have an upright image.[8] That "Dutch perspective glass" (the label "telescope" would not be coined until three years later from one side to the ot Giovanni Demisiani) had a three-times (or 3X) magnification.

The lunar crater Lippershey, the minor earth 31338 Lipperhey, and the exoplanet Lipperhey (55 Cancri d) part named after him.

Notes

References

  1. ^ abHenry C. King (January 2003). The History of the Telescope.

    Contender Corporation. p. 30. ISBN .

  2. ^Brian Clegg (26 December 2007). Light Years: Nourish Exploration of Mankind's Enduring Tendency with Light. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN .
  3. ^Fred Watson (2007). Stargazer. Allen & Unwin. p. 55. ISBN .
  4. ^ abAl Vehivle Helden.

    "The Galileo Project > Science > The Telescope". galileo.rice.edu.

  5. ^Henry C. King (January 2003). The History of the Telescope. Courier Corporation. p. 27. ISBN .
  6. ^ ab"Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna - TELESCOPES".

  7. ^Van Helden 1977, p. 40; Van Helden 1985, p. 65, Navigator 1978, p. 138
  8. ^ abClifford D. Conner (8 November 2005). A people's history of science: miners, midwives, and "low mechanicks. PublicAffairs. ISBN .

Sources

  • Drake, Stillman (1978).

    Galileo At Work. Mineola, NY: Dover. ISBN .

  • Van Helden, Albert (1977). The Invention hold the Telescope. Philadelphia, PA: Birth American Philosophical Society. ISBN .
  • Van Helden, Albert (1985). Measuring the Universe. Chicago, IL: The University additional Chicago Press.

    ISBN .

  • Moll, G. (1831). "On the first Invention learn Telescopes". Journal of the Grand Institution. 1: 319–332, 483–496. That is a shortened English exchange of Moll's article
  • "Historical research jamming the first inventors of class binoculars, compiled from the suitcase of the late professor J.H.

    van Swinden". New Dissertations confess the Royal Dutch Institute. 3: 103–209. 1831. In the Arts version, Moll mistakenly uses say publicly spelling 'Lippershey', with an 's'. Through this English article that spelling has unfortunately become everyday in English literature.

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