The History of the Telescope - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of the Telescope write by Henry C. King. This book was released on 2003-01-01. The History of the Telescope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This remarkable history encompasses not only the achievements of the early inventors and astronomers but also the less frequently recounted stories of the instrument makers and of the actual instruments. A model of unsurpassed, comprehensive scholarship, this volume covers many fields, including professional and amateur astronomy. 196 black-and-white illustrations.
The Invention of the Telescope
The Invention of the Telescope - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Invention of the Telescope write by Albert Van Helden. This book was released on 1977. The Invention of the Telescope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ours is an age of science and technology, based on precision instruments. The first such device to strengthen our feeble human senses in our striving to comprehend the strange and elusive universe around us was the telescope. Cornelis de Waard, in his "De uitvinding der verrekijkers" (The Hague, 1906), had uncovered many new documents bearing on the genesis of the telescope. Van Helden began this project as a translation of de Waard's study. However, Van Helden decided that the profession and de Waard's memory would be better served by a collection and translation of all the relevant primary sources named in his study. Contents of this volume: Intro.; The Background; Between Porta and Lipperhey, 1589-1608; and Documents. Illus. Reprint.
The Origins of the Telescope
The Origins of the Telescope - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origins of the Telescope write by Albert Van Helden. This book was released on 2010. The Origins of the Telescope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The origins of the telescope have been discussed and debated since shortly after the instrument's appearance in The Hague in 1608. Civic and national pride have led local dignitaries, popular writers, and numerous scholars to search the archives and to construct sharply divergent histories. Did the honor of the invention belong to the Dutch, to the Italians, to the English, or to the Spanish? And if the city of Middelburg in the Netherlands was, in fact, the cradle of the instrument, was the "true inventor" Hans Lipperhey or his rival Zacharias Jansen? Or was the instrument there before anyone knew it? Over the past several decades, a group of historians and scientists have sought out new documents, re-examined familiar ones, and tested early lenses and telescopes. This volume contains the proceedings of a symposium held in Middelburg in September 2008 to mark 400 years of the telescope. The essays in it, taken as a whole, present a new and convincing account of the origins of the instrument that changed mankind's vision of the universe.
The Long Route to the Invention of the Telescope
The Long Route to the Invention of the Telescope - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long Route to the Invention of the Telescope write by Rolf Willach. This book was released on 2008. The Long Route to the Invention of the Telescope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After the telescope became known in 1608-1609, a number of people in widely separate locations claimed that they had such a device long before the announcement came from The Hague; in the summer of 1608, no one had a telescope, in the summer of 1609, everyone had one. For a number of years author Rolf Willach has quietly tested early spectacle lenses in museums and private collections, and now he reports on this study, which gives an entirely new explanation of the invention of the telescope and solves the conundrum mentioned above. Willach is an optical engineer and independent scholar who worked for several years in the Department of Physics at the Institute of Astronomy in Bern. He has written extensively on the history of the development of optics and the telescope.
Telescope
Telescope - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Telescope write by Tamra Orr. This book was released on 2005-03-01. Telescope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the invention of the telescope, the impact it has had on modern culture, and the patterns of change that resulted from its discovery and use.
