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Telescope

The inventor of the telescope was Hans Lippershey, he was born from Germany but soon moved to Middleburg in the Netherlands in 1594. He got married in the same year when he moved in the Netherlands, soon became a Dutch citizen in 1602. He was a lens maker, he has been given credit once awhile for being the creator of the telescope. Although the people caught there eyes over the debate of who invented the telescope, there was given credit on the creators of the telescope: Hans Lippershey, Zacharias Jansen, and Jacob Metias.