The History of the Telescope

by Henry C. King

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486432656
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	11/02/2011
Series:	Dover Books on Astronomy
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	480
Sales rank:	338,509
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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