A Scientific equipment optician is an individual who makes and adjusts other optical aids, including telescope optics and microscope lenses. See also Optician for individuals who make and adjust eyeglasses.
James Gilbert Baker
John A. Brashear
Laurent Cassegrain
Henri Chrétien
Alvan Clark
Leonard Digges
John Dollond
Charles Wesley Elmer and Richard Scott Perkin
Galileo Galilei
James Gregory
John Hadley
Chester Moore Hall
Robert Hooke
Zacharias Janssen
Johannes Kepler
Frederick James Hargreaves
Christiaan Huygens
Hans Lippershey
Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov
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
Ernst Karl Abbe
Christopher Cock
Siegfried Czapski
Cornelius Drebbel
Galileo Galilei
Robert Hooke
Christiaan Huygens
Hans Janssen and Zacharias Janssen
Carl Kellner
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Moritz von Rohr
See also Timeline of microscope technology
