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lensmaker (plural lensmakers)

1. A manufacturer of lenses.
   • 2018 December 8, Don Lincoln, “Giant collisions shake the cosmos”, in CNN‎:

     In 1608, the German-Dutch lensmaker Hans Lippershey became the first person to apply for a patent for what we now call the telescope.

   • 2021 March 30, Anton Troianovski, “Hunting Ghost Particles Beneath the World’s Deepest Lake”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 2021-03-30:

     The field’s practitioners believe that as they learn to read the universe using neutrinos, they could make new, unexpected discoveries — much as the lensmakers who first developed the telescope could not have imagined that Galileo would later use it to discover the moons of Jupiter.

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