Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 308
t 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 Melius, of Alkmaar, a town about twenty milesfrom Amsterdam, claimed to have discovered the I882.J THE INVENTION OF THE TELESCOPE.… … OH, papa! see how near thr sterplf. 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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