Hans Lippershey that time he became a master lens grinder and spectacle maker and established a shop. He remained in Middelburg until his death, in September 1619. Hans Lippershey is known for the earliest written record of a refracting telescope, a patent he filed in 1608. His work with optical devices grew out of his work as a spectacle maker, an industry that had started in Venice and Florence in the thirteenth century, and later expanded to the Netherlands and Germany. Lippershey applied to the States General of the Netherlands on 2 October 1608 for a patent for his instrument ""for seeing
Hans Jacob Grøgaard union party ("Unionspartiet Hans Jacob Grøgaard Hans Jacob Grøgaard (5 April 1764 – 22 March 1836) was a Norwegian parish priest and writer. He served as a representative at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in 1814. Hans Jacob Grøgaard was born in Åsnes in Hedmark, Norway. At age three, the family moved to Bergen, where his father was sexton at St. Jørgen's Hospital Church ("St. Jørgen hospitalkirke"). Grøgaard started his education at the Bergen Cathedral School. He studied theology in Copenhagen and earned his theological degree in 1784. In 1797, he became a chaplain at Øyestad Church in Aust-Agder. In 1811,