Spaniard, not Dutchman, invented the telescope
The Guardian: Four hundred years after a Dutch spectacle maker laid claim to inventing the world's first telescope, documents have emerged suggesting a Spaniard may have got there first.
Historians generally credit Hans Lipperhey, who lived in the coastal town of Middelburg, with creating the first telescope, which he demonstrated to the Hague government on September 25 1608. But according to a recently discovered will, a brass-decorated telescope was among objects bequeathed by a Spaniard, Don Pedro de Carolona, to his widow in Barcelona in 1593.
