Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 310
ent to his government threetelescopes made by himself, calling them in-struments by means of which to see at a distance. Not long afterward another man, Jacob Adriansz,or Metius, of Alkmaar, a town about twenty milesfrom Amsterdam, claimed to have discovered the 1882.J THE INVENTION OF THE… … OH, PAPA! SEE IIDW NEAR THE STEEPLE COMES ! edged that to one of these two men belongs the to Hans Lippersheims quick wit. and his littlehonor of inventing the instrument. But it seems daughters lucky meddling, one of the most valu-certain that Hans Lippersheim had never known able and wonderful of…
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