Crossword-Solution: LIPPERSHEY 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 20

Some years later, Johannes Lippershey, of whom not much is known except that he died in 1619, experimented with a somewhat similar combination of lenses, and made the startling observation that the weather-vane on a distant church-steeple seemed to be brought much nearer when viewed through the lens.

The story is told that Lippershey, who was a spectacle-maker, stumbled by accident upon the discovery that when two lenses are held at a certain distance apart, objects at a distance appear nearer and larger.

The instrument presented to Prince Maurice, and which the Marquis Spinola found in the shop of John Lippershey, the spectacle maker of Middleburg, must have been an astronomical telescope consisting of two convex lenses.

The inventor of the telescope was a Dutchman named Hans Lippershey, who carried on the business of a spectacle-maker in the town of Middelburg.

Even Lippershey's claims to a practical solution of the question were hotly contested at the time by two of his own countrymen, _i.e._ a certain Jacob Metius, and another spectacle-maker of Middleburgh, named Jansen.