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From Earth-bound to satellite : telescopes, skills, and networks /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
©2012.
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| Colección: | History of science and medicine library ;
v. 23. History of science and medicine library. Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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