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Author | : Henry C. King |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780486432656 |
Download The History of the Telescope Book 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.
Author | : Albert Van Helden |
Publisher | : Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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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 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.
Author | : Albert Van Helden |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9069846152 |
Download The Origins of the Telescope Book 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.
Author | : Wilson Wall |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2018-10-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319990888 |
Download A History of Optical Telescopes in Astronomy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 pivotal invention in the 1600's up to the modern era of space-based telescopes. Over the intervening centuries, there were huge improvements in the optical resolution of telescopes, along with changes in their positioning and nature of application that forever altered the course of astronomy. For a long time, the field was an exclusive club for self-motivated stargazers who could afford to build their own telescopes. Many of these leisure-time scholars left their mark by virtue of their meticulous observations and record keeping. Although they would now be considered amateurs, these figures and their contributions were pivotal and are covered in this book alongside professionals, for the first time giving a complete picture of the history of telescopic science.
Author | : Rolf Willach |
Publisher | : American Philosophical Society Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Long Route to the Invention of the Telescope Book 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.
Author | : Galileo Galilei |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1989-04-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0226279030 |
Download Sidereus Nuncius, Or The Sidereal Messenger Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Sidereus Nuncius (usually Sidereal Messenger, also Starry Messenger or Sidereal Message) is a short astronomical treatise (or pamphlet) published in New Latin by Galileo Galilei in March 1610. It was the first published scientific work based on observations made through a telescope, and it contains the results of Galileo's early observations of the imperfect and mountainous Moon, the hundreds of stars that were unable to be seen in either the Milky Way or certain constellations with the naked eye, and the Medicean Stars that appeared to be circling Jupiter.[1] The Latin word nuncius was typically used during this time period to denote messenger; however, albeit less frequently, it was also interpreted as message. While the title Sidereus Nuncius is usually translated into English as Sidereal Messenger, many of Galileo's early drafts of the book and later related writings indicate that the intended purpose of the book was "simply to report the news about recent developments in astronomy, not to pass himself off solemnly as an ambassador from heaven."[2] Therefore, the correct English translation of the title is Sidereal Message (or often, Starry Message)."--Wikiped, Nov/2014.
Author | : Tamra Orr |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2005-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781417649976 |
Download Telescope Book 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.
Author | : Massimo Bucciantini |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2015-03-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674736915 |
Download Galileo’s Telescope Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky was ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo’s Telescope tells how this ingenious device evolved into a precision instrument that would transcend the limits of human vision and transform humanity’s view of its place in the cosmos.
Author | : Patrick Moore |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 144710627X |
Download Eyes on the Universe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This highly illustrated history of the telescope begins with pre-telescopic observatories and progresses to today`s most modern instruments, including the Hubble. The book examines the development of astronomical telescopes and provides a fascinating overview of the way astronomical telescopes and imaging have evolved with technology during the past 450 years.
Author | : Eileen Reeves |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0674042638 |
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The Dutch telescope and the Italian scientist Galileo have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind--so much so that it seems this simple glass instrument transformed a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the bold icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the extraordinary speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo's life and early modern astronomy obscures the astronomer's own curiously delayed encounter with the instrument. This book considers the lapse between the telescope's creation in The Hague in 1608 and Galileo's alleged acquaintance with such news ten months later. In an inquiry into scientific and cultural history, Eileen Reeves explores two fundamental questions of intellectual accountability: what did Galileo know of the invention of the telescope, and when did he know it? The record suggests that Galileo, like several of his peers, initially misunderstood the basic design of the telescope. In seeking to explain the gap between the telescope's emergence and the alleged date of the astronomer's acquaintance with it, Reeves explores how and why information about the telescope was transmitted, suppressed, or misconstrued in the process. Her revised version of events, rejecting the usual explanations of silence and idleness, is a revealing account of the role that misprision, error, and preconception play in the advancement of science. Along the way, Reeves offers a revised chronology of Galileo's life in a critical period and, more generally, shows how documents typically outside the scope of early modern natural philosophy--medieval romances, travel literature, and idle speculations--relate to two crucial events in the history of science.