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UNINA9910781539303321 |
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Titolo |
From Earth-bound to satellite [[electronic resource] ] : telescopes, skills, and networks / / edited by Alison D. Morrison-Low ... [et al.] |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-33470-4 |
9786613334701 |
90-04-21461-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Collana |
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History of science and medicine library ; ; v. 23 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Telescopes - History |
Astronomical instruments - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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