Sentence examples for spectacles maker from inspiring English sources

Galileo began to build telescopes, gradually increasing in magnification, in the fall of 1609 after hearing that a Dutch spectacles maker, Hans Lipperhey, had built a spyglass.

spectacle maker from the United Netherlands, traditionally credited with inventing the telescope (1608).

C. 1570 Wesel, Germany c. 1619 Middelburg, Netherlands Hans Lippershey, Lippershey also spelled Lipperhey, also called Jan Lippersheim or Hans Lippersheim (born c. 1570, Wesel, Ger. died c. 1619, Middelburg, Neth)., spectacle maker from the United Netherlands, traditionally credited with inventing the telescope (1608).

Zacharias Janssen, a Dutch spectacle maker, had invented the first microscope in 1590, although it was then regarded as a novelty rather than a revolution in science.

The married spectacle-makers Diane Paulus and Randy Weiner served as creative directors, with direction and choreography by Warren Carlyle.

Three Dutch spectacle makers—Hans Jansen, his son Zacharias Jansen, and Hans Lippershey have received credit for inventing the compound microscope about 1590.

This season, too, Meadham Kirchhoff collaborated with bespoke spectacle-maker Tom Davies on limited-edition sunglasses, their seemingly melting frames dripping with rare pearls.

In 1480 Domenico Ghirlandaio painted St. Jerome at a desk from which dangled eyeglasses; as a result, St. Jerome became the patron saint of the spectacle-makers' guild.

By trial and error, he quickly figured out the secret of the invention and made his own three-powered spyglass from lenses for sale in spectacle makers' shops.

At least once in the late 17th century, it was used to destroy faulty goods by the officers of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers.

A week or so before that, Maguy Marin, for years one of the larkiest of the European spectacle-makers, arrived in New York with "Les Applaudissements Ne Se Mangent Pas" ("You Can't Eat Applause"), which, again, was all movement, and very austere.