From Earth-Bound to Satellite
Telescopes, Skills and Networks
(Sprache: Englisch)
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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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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The volume forms a part of the celebrations marking the anniversary of the invention of the telescope. From its Renaissance beginnings to yesterday's Cold War, the essays contributed here throw a spotlight on a number of significant episodes in the continuing adventures of this well-loved instrument, which has played a crucial role in Man's thinking about his position - literally and philosophically - in the universe. Drawn from various conferences held by the Scientific Instrument Commission of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science between 2007 and 2009, these papers make a substantial contribution to our current knowledge about this fascinating optical instrument.
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List of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors
Foreword, Alison D. Morrison-Low
Introduction: Writing the History of the Telescope: Makers, Markets and Mapping, Sven Dupré
Galileo's Shopping List: An Overlooked Document about Early Telescope Making, Giorgio Strano
Johann Wiesel's Telescopes and his Clientele, Inge Keil
The 'Invisible Technician' Made Visible: Telescope Making in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-century Dutch Republic, Huib J. Zuidervaart
The Art of Polishing: Practice and Prose in Eighteenth-century Telescope Making, Jim A. Bennett
Networks of Telescope Makers and the Evolution of Skill: Evidence from Observatory and Museum Collections, Gloria C. Clifton
Scoping Longitude: Optical Designs for Navigation at Sea, Richard Dunn
Following the Stars: Clockwork for Telescopes in the Nineteenth Century, James Caplan
Telescopes Made in Berlin: From Carl Bamberg to Askania, Gudrun Wolfschmidt
Wide-Field Photographic Telescopes: The Yale, Harvard and Harvard/Smithsonian Meteor and Satellite Camera Networks, Teasel Muir-Harmony, David H. DeVorkin, Peter Abrahams
The Making of Space Astronomy: A Gift of the Cold War, Robert W. Smith
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Bibliographische Angaben
- 2011, XXX, 268 Seiten, 16 farbige Abbildungen, 59 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben:Morrison-Low, A.D.; Dupré, Sven; Johnston, Stephen
- Verlag: Brill
- ISBN-10: 9004211500
- ISBN-13: 9789004211506
Sprache:
Englisch
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