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• Music Maker — est un label musical américain de blues. Sommaire 1 Historique 2 Bibliographie 3 Derniers concerts en France 4 Discographie sélective …   Wikipédia en Français

• History of the telescope — The earliest known working telescopes appeared in 1608 and are credited to Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen, spectacle makers in Middelburg, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar. The design of these early refracting telescopes consisted of a convex… …   Wikipedia

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• John Farrow — Infobox Actor bgcolour = silver name = John Farrow birthname = John N.B. Villiers Farrow birthdate = February 10, 1904 location = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia deathdate = January 28, 1963 deathplace = Beverly Hills, California academyawards …   Wikipedia

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• Lippershey , Hans — (c. 1570–1619) Dutch spectacle maker Lippershey was a maker of eyeglasses in Wesel, Germany. According to tradition, an apprentice playing with a couple of lenses suddenly found that a distant weathercock looked much bigger and nearer. Lippershey …   Scientists

• Marcello Malpighi — Marcello Malpighi. Marcello Malpighi (10 March 1628 – 29 November 1694) was an Italian doctor, who gave his name to several physiological features, like the Malpighian tubule system. Contents 1 …   Wikipedia

• 1580 — Year 1580 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.Events of 1580 * March 1 Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays . They are published later the same year …   Wikipedia

• Robert Taylor (actor) — Infobox Actor bgcolour = silver name = Robert Taylor imagesize = 220px caption = from the trailer for Waterloo Bridge (1940) birthname = Spangler Arlington Brugh birthdate = birth date|1911|8|5|mf=y birthplace = Filley, Nebraska deathdate = death …   Wikipedia

• 1608 in science — The year 1608 in science and technology involved some significant events.Astronomy* Hans Lippershey invents the refracting telescope.Technology* Binoculars are invented, when spectacle maker Hans Lippershey conjoins two telescopic tubes to view… …   Wikipedia