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16 years 1 month ago #62274 by jhoare
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Our Dutch friends are justly proud that some of their opticians were the first known makers of telescopes but acknowledge that Galileo Galilei was the first to exploit its astronomical potential.

www.inventionofthetelescope.eu/400y_tele...ge/Itemid,1/lang,en/

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16 years 1 month ago #62282 by DeirdreKelleghan
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Very interesting,thank you John.

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16 years 1 month ago #62293 by Petermark
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I didn't realise that a person called "Janssen" may also lay claim to be the inventor of the telescope.
Quite a character:

He also frequently visited the court of justice because of his participation in bar-fights and his reluctance to pay bills.

and

He could have got the death penalty for counterfeit coining, but he got away with it. Probably, because he knew the sherif and shared the revenues with him!


(Maybe the Dutch kept quiet about Janssen all along.)

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16 years 1 month ago #62304 by jhoare
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Methinks there's a hint of Irishness about that man... :)

I wonder?

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16 years 1 month ago #62306 by Petermark
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Methinks there's a hint of Irishness about that man...

Don't think so. If he was an Irishman they would have done a proper job and hanged him.

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