telescope design which was submitted for patent only a few weeks before Metius'. Metius informed the States General that he was familiar with the secrets of...

a few weeks before another Dutch instrument-maker's patent, that of Jacob Metius. Lipperhey failed to receive a patent since the same claim for invention...

Metius (1571–1635) was a Dutch geometer and astronomer. Metius may also refer to: Metius (crater), a lunar crater in the family Carabidae Metius (beetle)...

unknown, but Hans Lipperhey applied for the first patent, followed by Jacob Metius of Alkmaar. Galileo was one of the first scientists to use this tool...

Building on this foundation, in the late 1500s, two Dutch spectacle makers Jacob Metius and Zacharias Janssen crafted the compound microscope by assembling several...

they were nearby." A few weeks later another Dutch instrument-maker, Jacob Metius also applied for a patent. The States General did not award a patent...

Adriaanszoon, called Metius, (9 December 1571 – 6 September 1635), was a Dutch geometer and astronomer born in Alkmaar. The name "Metius" comes from the Dutch...

applied for the first patent that year followed by a patent application by Jacob Metius of Alkmaar two weeks later (neither was granted since examples of the...

common item being offered by the spectacle makers in the Netherlands with Jacob Metius also applying for patent and the son of Zacharias Janssen making a claim...

records of a telescope appear in patents filed 1608 by Hans Lippershey and Jacob Metius. A description of Lippershey's instrument quickly reached Galileo Galilei...