The exact origin of the telescope is uncertain. People have commonly accepted that the first refracting telescope was created in the Netherlands in 1608, in 2008, the BBC reported on research in the magazine History Today that suggested that early models may have actually been made in Spain.
Historian Nick Pelling said the inventor might be a man named Juan Roget, a spectacle maker who died between 1617 and 1624. Roget actually came from a family of spectacle makers, and was credited for inventing the telescope in a 1609 book published by Italian Girolamo Sirtori. Its possible the idea of the telescope "traveled" to the Netherlands after being pioneered by Roget.
