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
Jacob Bording (1544-1584) married the theologian and composer, Lucas Bacmeister (1530-1608). Jacob Bording Jacob Bording (15 July 1511 - 5 September 1560) was a Flemish medical doctor and personal physician (""Leibarzt""). Jacob (Nikolaus) Bording was the son of the Antwerp merchant Nikolaus Bording (1449–1520). His mother, born Adriane d’Adriani, was a daughter of an influential family from Utrecht. Her uncle, Adriaen Floriszoon Boeiens, later became (briefly) Pope Hadrian VI, the first and till now last pope from what subsequently became known as The Netherlands. After concluding his schooling in Antwerp he moved on to study classical languages at Leuven/Louvain. In 1530 he