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Zacharias Janssen
Dutch optician
Zacharias Janssen | |
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Zacharias Janssen | |
| Born | () The Hague |
| Died | Given as before (sometimes ) Amsterdam |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Other&#;names | Zacharias Janssen, Sacharias Jansen |
| Occupation | Spectacle-maker (sometimes counterfeiter) |
| Known&#;for | Possible inventor of the microscope and the telescope (posthumous claim) |
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Zacharias Janssen; also Zacharias Jansen or Sacharias Jansen; &#; pre[1]) was a Dutch spectacle-maker who lived most of his life in Middelburg.
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He is associated with the invention of the first optical telescope and/or the first truly compound microscope, but these claims (made 20 years after his death) may be fabrications put forward by his son.
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Zacharias Janssen was born in The Hague.
Local records seem to indicate he was born in [2] although a date of birth as early as [3] or as lat