Who invented the Reflecting Telescope?

Answer 1

The illustrious and noted scientist Sir Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope. The same year, 1672, that he invented the reflecting telescope he also invented calculus.

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Answer 2

The Italian monk Niccolo Zucchi is credited with making the first reflector in 1616, but his inability to shape the concave mirror accurately and the lack of means of viewing the image without blocking the mirror, caused Zucchi to give up on the idea. In 1663 James Gregory published Optica Promota which described the first practical design of a reflector using two concave mirrors. A working example was not built until 10 years later by Robert Hooke. Sir Isaac Newton is credited with constructing the first "practical" reflecting telescope after his own design circa 1670. He designed his reflector, which used a concave objective and a smaller "diagonal" mirror, in order to solve the problem of chromatic aberration, a serious degradation in all refracting telescopes before the perfection of achromatic lenses.

Answer 3

Niccolo Zucchi is usualy credited with it, but Leonard Digges is known to have designed a reflecting telescope in the late 1500s. There's some evidence that he built one before 1608, 8 years before Zucchi, and even before Lipperhey.

Answer 4

Niccolo Zucchi is credited with inventing it, but 10 years later the idea was tweaked a little bit.

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Answer 5

Isaac Newton.