spectacle-maker

With a magnification power of 14, this telescope -- one of at least 100 Galileo constructed, Mr. Pitts says -- represented a major advance over the spyglasses made by the Dutch spectacle-maker Hans Lipperhey and others in 1608.

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Photo: Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis View Slideshow 1608: Hans Lippershey, a German-born Dutch spectacle-maker, demonstrates the first refracting telescope, the forerunner of the modern optical telescope.

Oct. 2, 1608: Up Close and Personal With Hans Lippershey 2007

But on other days would begin to fall the rain, of which we had had due warning from the little barometer-figure which the spectacle-maker hung out in his doorway.

Swann's Way 2003

Lippershey, a Dutch spectacle-maker, had presented to Count Maurice of Nassau an instrument by means of which distant objects appeared nearer to the beholder, addressed himself to the cause of such a phenomenon, which led to the invention of the telescope and proved the beginning of the modern science of astronomy.

How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon

The inventor of the telescope was a Dutchman named Hans Lippershey, who carried on the business of a spectacle-maker in the town of Middelburg.

The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

In the same year, 1609, Galileo heard the report that a spectacle-maker of Middleburg, in Holland, had made an instrument by which distant objects appeared nearer.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

Suppose, in short, the question that had torn the whole world in two was never even asked at all, until some spectacle-maker suggested it somewhere about 1750.

A Short History of England 1905

The story is told that Lippershey, who was a spectacle-maker, stumbled by accident upon the discovery that when two lenses are held at a certain distance apart, objects at a distance appear nearer and larger.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

But on other days would begin to fall the rain, of which we had had due warning from the little barometer-figure which the spectacle-maker hung out in his doorway.

Swann's Way Marcel Proust 1896

In 1609 Galileo heard that a Dutch spectacle-maker had combined a pair of lenses so as to magnify distant objects.

History of Astronomy George Forbes 1892