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Giambattista della Porta

was born 489 years ago

1 November 1535

Giambattista della Porta was an Italian scholar who worked on cryptography and also on optics. He claimed to be the inventor of the telescope although he does not appear to have constructed one before Galileo.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Porta/