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Who honestly Invented the Telescope?

For most of us, we belief that Galileo Galilei was the originator of telescope because this is what our science teachers have told us and this is what we have read in our science books. But the truth is, we are wrong because even if Galilei was one of the greatest astronomers this planet has ever produced, he was not the one who invented the telescope, so who invented the telescope is a query that has been plaguing our mind.

The retort to query on who invented the telescope is Hans Lipperhey. Yes he was the one who invented the telescope and his invention has greatly contributed to world of astronomy and science as whole. The telescope has changed the scenery of many things in our world. The telescope is used not only in discovering the world face our planet such as the stars, planets and other titanic objects but even in our daily lives. For instance, a telescope is used in aiding navigation and communication such as a vessel and it is used even in the forces field, as a tool of protecting and defending one's territory.

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Now going back to the query on who invented the telescope, this guy named Han Lipperhey was the cause for a big turn in our world and he was born in Germany and built his home in Netherlands. Married in 1954 and a habitancy of the Netherlands I 1602, he was a trader by professions. At that time when the Italians came up with glass-techniques that was introduced to the Netherlands, such development has brought new ideas and progress and habitancy then began to try out separate ways of creating lenses. It was in 1608 that telescopes were invented.

The truth was there was not only one person who invented the telescope because the invention can be given to three persons, Hans Lippershey and Zacharis Janssen and Jacob Metius. After the invention, telescopes were then produced in numbers and were spread across Europe and at last in the Americas and in Asia. The early telescopes can only growth the size of an object thrice its former size. But the present telescopes can view object that are light years away and can see even the tiny object and magnify them.

When did Galilei enter into the picture? He admittedly did not institute the telescope but added some things because he put a convex and concave lens in a tube so what he did was an improved version of the former one. So Galilei was not admittedly the one who invented the telescope.
Now here is the twist to the story because there was a rumor that circulated that it was neither Galilei nor Hans who invented. It was the children of Hans who found out about the telescope while they were playing. But that side of the story on who invented the telescope was not yet proven. So at this point, we have to determine with the more believable version and that is, it was Hans and two others who invented the telescope.

Who honestly Invented the Telescope?

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