From Earth-bound to satellite : telescopes, skills, and networks / edited by Alison D. Morrison-Low [and others].

Marking the anniversary of the telescope's invention, these collected essays highlight a number of significant historical episodes concerning this well-loved instrument, which has played a crucial role in Man's thinking about his position - literally and philosophically - in the universe.

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Other Authors: Morrison-Low, A. D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2012.
Series:History of science and medicine library ; v. 23.
History of science and medicine library. Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 2.
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490 1 |a History of science and medicine library ;  |v v. 23 
490 1 |a Scientific instruments and collections ;  |v v. 2 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
505 0 |a List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Introduction: Writing the History of the Telescope: Makers, Markets and Mapping; Colour Plates I-XIII; Galileo's Shopping List: An Overlooked Document about Early Telescope Making; Johann Wiesel's Telescopes and his Clientele; The 'Invisible Technician' Made Visible: Telescope Making in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-century Dutch Republic; The Art of Polishing: Practice and Prose in Eighteenth-century Telescope Making 
505 8 |a Networks of Telescope Makers and the Evolution of Skill: Evidence from Observatory and Museum CollectionsScoping Longitude: Optical Designs for Navigation at Sea; Following the Stars: Clockwork for Telescopes in the Nineteenth Century; Telescopes Made in Berlin: From Carl Bamberg to Askania; Wide-Field Photographic Telescopes: The Yale, Harvard and Harvard/Smithsonian Meteor and Satellite Camera Networks; The Making of Space Astronomy: A Gift of the Cold War; General Index 
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