03811nam 2200637Ia 450 991045778880332120200520144314.01-283-33470-4978661333470190-04-21461-510.1163/9789004214613(CKB)2550000000074492(EBL)1010540(OCoLC)777548338(SSID)ssj0000554774(PQKBManifestationID)11364356(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000554774(PQKBWorkID)10517226(PQKB)10030407(MiAaPQ)EBC1010540(nllekb)BRILL9789004214613(PPN)174394314(Au-PeEL)EBL1010540(CaPaEBR)ebr10515912(CaONFJC)MIL333470(EXLCZ)99255000000007449220111006d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrom Earth-bound to satellite[electronic resource] telescopes, skills, and networks /edited by Alison D. Morrison-Low ... [et al.]Leiden ;Boston Brillc20121 online resource (312 p.)History of science and medicine library ;v. 23Description based upon print version of record.90-04-21150-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 a number of significant episodes in the continuing adventures of this well-loved instrument, which has played a crucial role in Man’s thinking about his position – literally and philosophically – in the universe. Drawn from various conferences held by the Scientific Instrument Commission of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science between 2007 and 2009, these papers make a substantial contribution to our current knowledge about this fascinating optical instrument.History of science and medicine library ;v. 23.TelescopesHistoryAstronomical instrumentsHistoryElectronic books.TelescopesHistory.Astronomical instrumentsHistory.522/.209Morrison-Low A. D872514MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457788803321From Earth-bound to satellite1947816UNINA