Who Invented Telescope?

Godoo · #1 Friday, February 10, 2006

In an EDS book i read that Hans Lippershey of the Netherlands invented Telescope in 1608, but after some pages there was also mentioned that Galileo Galilei of Italy invented Telescope. Which one is correct?

regards

Godoo

#2 Friday, February 10, 2006

its still a matter of conjecture as to who was the real inventor of telescope, as the following stub from wikipedia highlights it:
Though the Visby lenses tentatively suggest that the technology was known to the Arabs and then to the Vikings in the 10th century, credit for assembling the first telescope is usually given to an unknown Dutch spectacle maker in about 1608. Some name that person as Hans Lippershey (c1570-c1619). Even if Lippershey did not make the first one, he publicized it. Galileo Galilei made his own telescope in 1609, calling it at first a perspicillum, and then using the terms telescopium in Latin and telescopio in Italian (from which the English word derives). Galileo is generally credited with being the first to use a telescope for astronomical purposes. Galileo's telescope consisted of a convex object lens and a concave eye lens, which is universally called a Galilean Telescope (used as a viewfinder in many simple cameras). Later, Johannes Kepler described the optics of lenses (see his books Astronomiae Pars Optica and Dioptrice), including a new kind of astronomical telescope with two convex lenses (a principle often called Kepler telescope). Optical interferometer arrays and arrays of radio telescopes were developed much more recently.

Satan · #3 Friday, February 10, 2006

I know a bit about telescopes coz I'd done some research on them before getting my own.

I think it's Galileo Galilei who is credited as the inventor of the first telescope.
There are two famous types of telescopes available for astronomy, Galileo's version of telescope is called refractor(The one which I own).The other one is called reflector, designed by Issac Newton.

However Hans Lippershey is often credited with the invention, but he almost certainly was not the first to make one. But Lippershey was, the first to make the new device widely known.

Here are few references that may help:
http://inventors.about.com/library/i...ltelescope.htm
http://cnx.rice.edu/content/m11932/latest/
http://www.birdwatching.com/optics/first_telescope.html

Adil Memon · #4 Friday, February 10, 2006

The school textbooks at the elementary level accrue the credit for that invention to 'Galileo'. Don't know whats the truth!

Regards,

farhanshahid · #5 Wednesday, February 15, 2006

the 2nd one is right...there had been several enhancements in the field of light and lenses but the main credit goes to gallieo thats wot precise books tell......
one thing more the magzine COMRADE was launched my Moulana Muhammad Ali Joohar while in pakistan struggle but there had been read some where that sir Syed Ahmad khan also did so...with named Comrade i dont know weather it was magzine, newspaper or some other sort of publication...i couldn't find the source but still its been cluched in my mind abt sir syed....have either of you also have ever read comrade and sir syed Ahmad khan...

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