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The Origins of the Telescope
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Albert Van Helden
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

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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
The History of the Telescope
Language: en
Pages: 484
Authors: Henry C. King
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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This remarkable history encompasses not only the achievements of the early inventors and astronomers but also the less frequently recounted stories of the instr
The Invention of the Telescope
Language: en
Pages: 72
Authors: Albert Van Helden
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1977 - Publisher: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society

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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 compreh
Seeing and Believing
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Richard Panek
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Penguin Group

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Tells the story, visionary by visionary and discovery by discovery, of the telescope, one of the few inventions that have revolutionized our view of the univers
A History of Optical Telescopes in Astronomy
Language: en
Pages: 181
Authors: Wilson Wall
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-01 - Publisher: Springer

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This book is uniquely about the relationship between the optical telescope and astronomy as they developed together. It covers the time between the telescope's