The long route to the invention of the telescope / Rolf Willach.

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Main Author: Willach, Rolf, 1937-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 2008.
Series:Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 98, pt. 5.
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