From Earth-bound to satellite : : telescopes, skills, and networks / / edited by Alison D. Morrison-Low ... [et al.].

• Superior document: History of science and medicine library ; v. 23
• TeilnehmendeR: Morrison-Low, A. D.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: History of science and medicine library ; v. 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• 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 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 and Peter Abrahams
• The Making of Space Astronomy: A Gift of the Cold War / Robert W. Smith
• General Index
• Colour Plates I–XIII.