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 Lippershey (55 Cancri d) are named after him. English speakers tend to interpret the letters 'sh' in the name as representing a single phoneme, the sibilant <nowiki>[</nowiki>ʃ, resulting in a pronunciation like . Both in German and in Dutch, however, the letters 's' and 'h' belong to different syllables and are pronounced separately. The German pronunciation is , whereas the Dutch pronunciation is closer to . Hans Lippershey Hans Lippershey (1570 – buried 29 September 1619), also known as Johann Lippershey or Lipperhey, was a German-Dutch spectacle-maker. He is commonly associated with the invention of the telescope, because he was the