Henry C King

The History of the Telescope

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. 196 black-and-white illustrations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780486432656
• ISBN-10: 0486432653
• Artikelnr.: 21750450

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Beginnings of Astronomical Observation 2. Early References to Lenses
and to Optics 3. The Application of the Telescope to Astronomy by Galileo
4. Descartes' Failure to Improve the Telescope 5. Newton's Dispersion
Investigations 6. Gascoigne and Picard Use Telescopic Sights 7. The
Telescopes Used by Herschel at Bath 8. Hall's Invention of the Achromatic
Lens 9. Guinand's Contributions to Flint-glass Manufacture 10. Rosse's
Experiments with Compound Specula 11. Cassini IV's Trouble at the Paris
Observatory with French Instrument-workers 12. The First American
Observatories 13. Liebig's Silvering Process 14. Early History of Spectrum
Analysis 15. Visual, Photographic and Photovisual Refractors of the Late
Nineteenth Century 16. Hale's Invention of the Spectroheliograph 17. The
Zeiss Foundation--Interesting Zeiss Telescopes 18. The 74-inch Toronto
Reflector and Smaller Grubb-Parsons Telescope 19. Large Telescopes Built by
Amateurs Index