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Picture No 10052125
Date 1590
Description Lippershey's Lenses
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The legendary account of the invention of the telescope : Hans Lippershey's apprentices, playing with lenses, happen to hold two of them up together - the rest is history
Source engraving by Ferat in an unidentified French popular science book
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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