The telescope makers : from Galileo to the space age / Barbara Land.
The telescope makers : from Galileo to the space age / Barbara Land.
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New York : Crowell, [c1968].
Date
[c1968].
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T0256952
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English
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x, 245 p. : illus., facsims., ports ; 21 cm.
Contents
Hans Lippershey's ingenious spyglass -- Galileo's new window on the heavens -- Johannes Kepler, the nearsighted wizard -- Isaac Newton's reflecting telescope -- William Herschel's giant reflectors -- Joseph Von Fraunhofer's lines and lenses -- Lord Rosse's leviathan of Parsonstown -- George Ellery H...
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New York : Crowell, [c1968].
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New York (State)
Date Published
[c1968].
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Profiles the lives and scientific discoveries of ten scientists pioneering in the development of the telescope.
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The telescope makers : from Galileo to the space age / Barbara Land.
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Bibliography: p. 235-237.
Transferred from: N522.2/13.
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T0256952
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74Vv0kyAWq7A
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991015883799702626
