A scientific equipment optician is an individual who makes and adjusts other optical aids, including

telescope A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), absorption, or Reflection (physics), reflection of electromagnetic radiation. Originally, it was an optical instrument using len ...

optics Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of optical instruments, instruments that use or Photodetector, detect it. Optics usually describes t ...

and

microscope A microscope () is a laboratory equipment, laboratory instrument used to examine objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye. Microscopy is the science of investigating small objects and structures using a microscope. Microscopic ...

lenses A lens is a transmissive optical device that focuses or disperses a light beam by means of refraction. A simple lens consists of a single piece of transparent material, while a compound lens consists of several simple lenses (''elements''), ...

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Optician An optician is an individual who fits glasses or contact lenses by filling a refractive prescription from an optometrist or ophthalmologist. They are able to translate and adapt ophthalmic prescriptions, dispense products, and work with acces ...

for individuals who make and adjust

glasses Glasses, also known as eyeglasses (American English), spectacles (Commonwealth English), or colloquially as specs, are vision eyewear with clear or tinted lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's eyes, typically u ...

Telescope opticians

* James Gilbert Baker * Denis Albert Bardou * John A. Brashear * Laurent Cassegrain *

Henri Chrétien Henri Jacques Chrétien (; 1 February 1879, Paris – 6 February 1956, Washington, D.C.) was a French astronomer and an inventor. Born in Paris, France, his most famous inventions are: * the anamorphic widescreen process, using an anamorphic ...

* Alvan Clark * John Dollond * Charles Wesley Elmer and Richard Scott Perkin *

Galileo Galilei Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei ( , , ) or mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a poly ...

* James Gregory *

John Hadley John Hadley (16 April 1682 – 14 February 1744) was an England, English mathematician, and laid claim to the invention of the octant (instrument), octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey (inventor), Thomas Godfrey claimed the same. Biograp ...

* Chester Moore Hall *

Robert Hooke Robert Hooke (; 18 July 16353 March 1703) was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist, and architect. He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living ...

Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler (27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, Natural philosophy, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best know ...

* Frederick James Hargreaves *

Christiaan Huygens Christiaan Huygens, Halen, Lord of Zeelhem, ( , ; ; also spelled Huyghens; ; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution ...

* 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 (mathematician), James Short See also Timeline of telescope technology and List of astronomical instrument makers

Microscope opticians

* Ernst Karl Abbe * Denis Albert Bardou * Christopher Cock * Siegfried Czapski * Cornelius Drebbel *

* Carl Kellner (optician), Carl Kellner * Anton van Leeuwenhoek * Moritz von Rohr See also Timeline of microscope technology {{DEFAULTSORT:Scientific Equipment Optician Scientific instrument makers, Optical Science occupations