who invented the first telescope?

Answer 1

The first telescopes may have been Assyrian crystal lenses, but the Visby lenses tentatively suggest that the technology was known to the Arabs and Persians. Leonard Digges is sometimes credited with the invention in England in the 1570s, but usually credit for assembling the first telescope is given to an unknown Dutch spectacle maker in about 1608. Some name that person as Hans Lippershey (c. 1570 – c. 1619), but Jacob Metius and Zacharias Jansen also claimed to have invented a telescope during the same period.

Answer 2

The telescope was introduced to astronomy in 1609 by the great Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, who became the first man to see the craters of the moon, and who went on to discover sunspots, the four large moons of Jupiter, and the rings of Saturn. Galileo's telescope was similar to a pair of opera glasses in that it used an arrangement of glass lenses to magnify objects. This arrangement provided limited magnification--up to 30 times for Galileo--and a narrow field of view; Galileo could see no more than a quarter of the moon's face without repositioning his telescope.

Answer 3

Gallileo is credited with the design of the Gallilean telescope. It uses two concave lenses to generate magnification of distant objects. The second design is by Keplar, he invented the Keplarian telescope with a concave and convex lens (check history for actual design, Keplarians use multiple configurations of concave and convex lenses, not sure if he designed one or 2, however the much simpler Gallilean was designed first.

Answer 4

No certain answer. The Dutch are usually credited, but without any specific name. More famously the first important user was probably Galileo who convinced himself that the view of the Pole Copernicus that the Earth moved round the Sun were correct. This was not popular with the Catholics who promised, in that thoughtful way of theirs, to stick his head on a pole (not Copernicus - a wooden one!) Poor old Galileo faced by 'The Mob' of the day withdrew his conclusions. More here than you wanted I suspect.

Answer 5

Galileo Galilei

Answer 6

History of the Telescope - Binocular
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Phoenicians cooking on sand discovered glass around 3500 BCE, but it took about 5,000 years more for glass to be shaped into a lens for the first telescope. A spectacle maker probably assembled the first telescope. Hans Lippershey (c1570-c1619) of Holland is often credited with the invention, but he almost certainly was not the first to make one. Lippershey was, however, the first to make the new device widely known.
The telescope was introduced to astronomy in 1609 by the great Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, who became the first man to see the craters of the moon, and who went on to discover sunspots, the four large moons of Jupiter, and the rings of Saturn. Galileo's telescope was similar to a pair of opera glasses in that it used an arrangement of glass lenses to magnify objects. This arrangement provided limited magnification--up to 30 times for Galileo--and a narrow field of view; Galileo could see no more than a quarter of the moon's face without repositioning his telescope.

In 1704, Sir Issac Newton announced a new concept in telescope design whereby instead of glass lenses, a curved mirror was used to gather in light and reflect it back to a point of focus. This reflecting mirror acts like a light-collecting bucket: the bigger the bucket, the more light it can collect. The reflector telescope that Newton designed opened the door to magnifying objects millions of times--far beyond what could ever be obtained with a lens.

Newton's fundamental principle of using a single curved mirror to gather in light remained the same. The major change that took place was the growth in the size of the reflecting mirror, from the 6-inch mirror used by Newton to the 6-meter (236 inches in diameter) mirror of the Special Astrophysical Observatory in Russia, which opened in 1974.

The idea of a segmented mirror dated back to the 19th century, but experiments with it had been few and small, and many astronomers doubted its viability. It remained for the Keck Telescope to push the technology forward and bring into reality this innovative design.

A binocular is a optical instrument for providing a magnified view of distant objects, consisting of two similar telescopes, one for each eye, mounted on a single frame. The first binocular telescope was invented by J. P. Lemiere in 1825.

The Early History of the Binocular
The modern prism binocular began with Ignatio Porro's 1854 Italian patent for a prism erecting system.

The First 300 Years of Binocular Telescopes
"What we call a binocular is a binocular telescope, two small prismatic telescopes joined together. When Hans Lippershey applied for a patent on his instrument in 1608, the bureaucracy in charge, who had never before seen a telescope, asked him to build a binocular version of it, with quartz optics, which he is reported to have completed in December 1608.


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Answer 7

Galileo

Answer 8

Galeleo?

Answer 9

a greek astroligist about two or three generations before Ceaser

Answer 10

Galileo...and he used it to piss off the Roman Catholic church.