Note 39 — Chapter II · THE TELESCOPE AND ITS REVELATIONS.

History has acknowledged the optician Hans Lipperhey, of Middelburg, to be the inventor of the telescope. Compare the historical sketch in “Das neue Buch der Erfindungen,” etc., vol. ii. pp. 217-220. (Leipzig, 1865.) The instrument received its name from Prince Cesi, who, on the advice of the learned Greek scholar Demiscianus, called it a “teleskopium.”