The History of the Telescope

The History of the Telescope
Author: Henry C. King
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780486432656

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.

The Invention of the Telescope

The Invention of the Telescope
Author: Albert Van Helden
Publisher: Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1977
Genre: Science
ISBN:

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.

The Origins of the Telescope

The Origins of the Telescope
Author: Albert Van Helden
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2010
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9069846152

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.

The Long Route to the Invention of the Telescope

The Long Route to the Invention of the Telescope
Author: Rolf Willach
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

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.

Telescope

Telescope
Author: Tamra Orr
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2005-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781417649976

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.

Sidereus Nuncius, Or The Sidereal Messenger

Sidereus Nuncius, Or The Sidereal Messenger
Author: Galileo Galilei
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1989-04-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0226279030

"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.

Galileo’s Telescope

Galileo’s Telescope
Author: Massimo Bucciantini
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2015-03-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0674736915

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.

Seeing and Believing

Seeing and Believing
Author: Richard Panek
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780140280616

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 universe and how we fit into it.

Eyes on the Universe

Eyes on the Universe
Author: Patrick Moore
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 144710627X

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.