Who was the first person to discover Jupiter?

Answer 1

The invention of the telescope is credited to Hans Lippershey. Crude telescopes and spyglasses may have been created much earlier by Dutch opticians, but Lippershey is believed to be the first to apply for a patent for his design. His telescope was made up of one convex lens and one concave lens.

Galileo Galilei perfected it by using two convex lenses. He constructed his first telescope in 1609. This telescope is called the Galilean telescope or the refracting telescope.

Isaac newton invented a telescope which used two mirrors. He constructed his first telescope in 1669. His version of the telescope was called the Newtonian telescope or the reflecting telescope.

Answer 2

Jupiter can be seen with the naked eye - it looks like the second-brightest star, after Venus. Several ancient civilizations, including the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, knew about the five planets that can be seen with the naked eye, including Jupiter.

Answer 3

The history of the telescope dates back to the early 1600s. Galileo Galilei is commonly credited for inventing the telescope, but this is not accurate. Galileo was the first to use a telescope for the purpose of astronomy in 1609 (400 years ago in 2009, which is currently being celebrated as the International Year of Astronomy). Hans Lipperhey, a German spectacle maker, is generally credited as the inventor of the telescope, as his patent application is dated the earliest, on the 25th of September 1608.

Lipperhey combined curved lenses to magnify objects by up to 3 times, and eventually crafted sets of binocular telescopes for the Government of the Netherlands.

There exists some confusion as to who actually came up with the idea first. Lipperhey's patent application is the earliest on record, so this is usually used to settle the debate, although another spectacle-maker, Jacob Metius of Alkmaar, a city in the northern part of the Netherlands, filed for a patent for the same device a few weeks after Lipperhey. Another spectacle-maker, Sacharias Janssen, also claimed to have invented the telescope decades after the initial claims by Lipperhey and Metius.

Regardless of the inventor, most of the earliest versions of the telescope used a curved lens made of polished glass at the end of a tube to magnify objects to a factor of 3x. To learn more about how a telescope lens works, read our article on the telescope lens in the Guide to Space.

Answer 4

Hans Lipperhey invented the telescope. He was a German who made glasses in the early 1600's. Many confuse this fact accrediting Galileo with the invention of the telescope because he was the first to use it to view space but this is incorrect.

Answer 5

Galileo Galilei was the first person to discover Jupiter using a telescope in 1610. He observed the four largest moons of Jupiter, now known as the Galilean moons.

Answer 6

Galileo started using telescopes for astronomy back in 1609

Answer 7

Hens Lippershey invented the first telescope in 1608.

Answer 8

Galileo is usually considred the first scientific user, though the device first devised by Dutch opticians in about 1608

Answer 9

The first person who made the first telescope was Hans Lippershey, A dutch man who made spectacles. And the person who discovered 4 moons of Jupiter was Galileo.

Answer 10

Galileo Galilei

From what I've heard Galelio Galilei wasnt the first person to inevnt the telescope he was just at the right place at the right time