A Sense of the Enemy
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Shore, Zachary
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2012
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No one knows precisely how Hans Lippershey came upon the invention. One legend holds that some children
wandered into his spectacle shop, began playing with the lenses on display, and suddenly started to laugh. Tiny objects far away
appeared as though they were right in front of them. The miniscule had become gigantic. Though the truth of that tale is doubtful, the story of the telescope’s invention remains a mystery. We know only that four centuries ago, on October 2, 1608, Hans Lippershey received a patent for a device that is still recognizable as a modern refractory telescope.
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National Security Affairs
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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6 p.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.