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- Exhibition on the 400th anniversary of the invention of the telescope online
On 25 September 2008 exactly 400 years had passed since Hans Lipperhey, an optician from Middelburg, went to the States General in the Hague with a letter of recommendation from the States of Zealand, to apply for a patent for a “certain instrument to see far”. This letter of recommendation for Lipperhey’s patent application is the oldest document in the world which presents the telescope with certainty as an instrument for practical use — although the word ‘telescope’ did not exist at the time.
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