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 Ulrich in that branch of art. Examples of his work exist in the museums of Orléans and Nantes. C. Huber etched a series of sixty plates from his designs. Hans Jacob Ulrich Hans Jacob Ulrich (1798 in Zurich – 1877) was a Swiss painter. Ulrich was brought up to be a merchant, but gave up business and devoted himself to painting. He travelled in France, Italy, England, and the Netherlands for improvement, and became a successful painter of landscapes, sea-pieces, birds, and animals. He was a professor at the Zurich Polytechnic. He was an exhibitor at the Salon between 1824 and