Refracting Telescopes

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2762. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation And Observational Techniques, Astronomical Instrumentation

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Nobody is sure of the date when the first telescope was made. It may be as far back as the early 1550s, when there is evidence that a telescope of some sort was constructed in England by Leonard Digges, but it is all very uncertain, and the first telescope of which we have definite proof was built by the Dutch spectacle maker H Lippershey in 1608. Others soon followed and were turned toward the s...

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