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A developer of optical scientific equipment is an individual who makes and adjusts optical aids for scientific purposes, including telescope optics and microscope lenses.


== Telescope developers ==
James Gilbert Baker
Denis Albert Bardou
John A. Brashear
Laurent Cassegrain
Henri Chrétien
Alvan Clark
John Dollond
Charles Wesley Elmer and Richard Scott Perkin
Galileo Galilei
James Gregory
John Hadley
Chester Moore Hall
Robert Hooke
Johannes Kepler
Frederick James Hargreaves
Christiaan Huygens
Hans Lippershey
Raymond Augustin Mailhat
Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov
James Henry Marriott
Jacob Metius
Isaac Newton
Georg Simon Plössl
Russell W. Porter
Jesse Ramsden
George Willis Ritchey
Christoph Scheiner
Bernhard Schmidt
James Short
See also Timeline of telescope technology and List of astronomical instrument makers


== Microscope developers ==
Ernst Karl Abbe
Denis Albert Bardou
Christopher Cock
Siegfried Czapski
Cornelius Drebbel
Galileo Galilei
Robert Hooke
Christiaan Huygens
Carl Kellner
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Moritz von Rohr
See also Timeline of microscope technology


== References ==