2006-12-25 18:45:28 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
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.
in between some one else i dnt remember his name he created a design and was published in his jounal some "scientifica"
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. (Also the telescope was first used to spot ships.) 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 the Kepler telescope). Optical interferometer arrays and arrays of radio telescopes were developed much more recently.
2006-12-25 22:56:46 · answer #1 · answered by fayaz_aero 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Dutch spectacle makers. Hans Lippershey, a Dutch lens maker applied for a patent for a telescope in 1608. The patent was refused. Jacob Metius applied for a patent for the same device a few weeks later in 1608. The technology was known throughout Europe by July 1609, when Galileo heard about, and rapidly constructed one and used is to make extensive astronomical observations.
You can also argue that the technology goes back to the Assyrians 3000 years ago.
2006-12-26 03:09:26 · answer #2 · answered by Josh M 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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.
2006-12-26 02:48:53 · answer #3 · answered by shyboycap 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Galileo Galilei
2006-12-26 03:09:30 · answer #4 · answered by james 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's credited to Gallileo Gallilei, but it seems that there was a general telescope-making vibe going on at the time and he just happened to be the first one to make it widely known.
2006-12-27 07:24:00 · answer #5 · answered by zodiacs_cat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isaac Newton changed Galileo's design and the one we use today is based on the Newton design.
2006-12-26 05:03:29 · answer #6 · answered by True Blue Brit 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't think it was Galileo, but he was one of the first to use one.
His most famous achievement is: Pissing-Off the Catholic Church, big-time...
2006-12-26 08:06:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the inventor of the refractor telescope was Gallileo.
2006-12-26 02:56:10 · answer #8 · answered by karthikg_92 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Galileo made the first i believe
2006-12-26 02:47:57 · answer #9 · answered by If I run 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Aliens.
2006-12-26 02:55:19 · answer #10 · answered by Carson 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋