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they invented the telescope. The writer con-
siders that it is more likely that these notes
refer to a kind of camera obscura , in which
a lens throws an inverted image of a land-
scape on the wall.
The first telescopes were made in Hol-
land, the originator being either Henry Lipperhey,[1]
Zacharias Jansen, or James Metius, and the
date 1608 or earlier.
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