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Hans Lippershey - Inventor of First Refracting Telescope
The first reported case of anyone building telescope came from 1608, from within diplomatic report between embassy of Holland and Kingdom of Siam.
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In that report it was described how watch-maker and master lens-grinder Hans Lippershey has managed to combine specially crafted lenses to create first working model of telescope.
Hans Lippershey was born in 1570 in Wesel, Germany.
At the age of 24 he settled in Middelburg (province Zeeland), Netherlands, where he was married. There he opened his shop, creating spectacles and crafting lenses of various sizes.
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It is not exactly known from where he got an idea for building his first telescope. Some reports claim that he heard of similar devices that were made by other people, while some believe that he simply came to idea to it when he saw children playing with his lenses.
In any case, in 1608 he managed to create first crude telescope that had either two convex lenses (that prod