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Was the telescope invented in Spain?
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2008/10/07 - 19:55.
1501 CE to 1600 CE | Astrology and Astronomy | BBC News | Spanish
An article for the magazine History Today claims that the telescope may have been invented in Spain by a Burgundian spectacle maker named Juan Roget, rather than in the Netherlands or Italy, as previously believed.
Historian Nick Pelling believes Roget created the telescope for Spanish merchants late in the 16th century. The merchants then carried the instrument north where it was rediscovered in the early 17th century. |
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