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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: What Galileo Saw

• “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.”

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

• “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

• “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'

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

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

  History of Astronomy

• “The children of a spectacle-maker placed two or more pairs of the spectacles before each other in play, and told their father that distant objects looked larger.”

  Pushing to the Front

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