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Many people credit Galileo for inventor of the telescope. However it was a Dutchmen named Hans Lippershey who invented it in1608. He used the telescope as a spying glass and not to observe the night sky with it. Galileo often gets credit for inventing the telescope in 1609, which was 20x more powerful than Lippersheys, because he used it to observe the night sky.

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