Lippershey's patent application for the telescope.

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   Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-May-2026 14:21:55 JST Corey S Powell

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   Dutch lensmaker Hans Lippershey is generally credited as the inventor of the telescope. (That's his patent application, below.) He had a different name for the device: He called it a "kijker," meaning "looker" in Dutch.

   In a different reality, there is a Hubble Space Kijker.

   https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/lippershey.html