From Earth-bound to satellite [[electronic resource] ] : telescopes, skills, and networks / / edited by Alison D. Morrison-Low ... [et al.]
| From Earth-bound to satellite [[electronic resource] ] : telescopes, skills, and networks / / edited by Alison D. Morrison-Low ... [et al.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Disciplina | 522/.209 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Morrison-LowA. D |
| Collana | History of science and medicine library |
| Soggetto topico |
Telescopes - History
Astronomical instruments - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-33470-4
9786613334701 90-04-21461-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457788803321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2012 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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From Earth-bound to satellite [[electronic resource] ] : telescopes, skills, and networks / / edited by Alison D. Morrison-Low ... [et al.]
| From Earth-bound to satellite [[electronic resource] ] : telescopes, skills, and networks / / edited by Alison D. Morrison-Low ... [et al.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Disciplina | 522/.209 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Morrison-LowA. D |
| Collana | History of science and medicine library |
| Soggetto topico |
Telescopes - History
Astronomical instruments - History |
| ISBN |
1-283-33470-4
9786613334701 90-04-21461-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781539303321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2012 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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