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Eyes on the sky : a spectrum of telescopes / / Francis Graham-Smith
| Eyes on the sky : a spectrum of telescopes / / Francis Graham-Smith |
| Autore | Graham-Smith Francis <1923-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Disciplina | 522.2/09 |
| Soggetto topico | Telescopes - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-19-105360-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Eyes on the Sky: A Spectrum of Telescopes; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; 1: Galileo Opens the Sky; The First Telescope; The Moons of Jupiter; The Next Moves: Kepler; Gregory, Newton, and Herschel; The New Windows; 2: The Big Reflecting Telescopes; Photography; Splitting the Spectrum; Mounting the Monsters; Covering the Sky: the Palomar Schmidt; Bigger and Better; 3: New Ways to Build Big Telescopes; The Altazimuth Mount and Computer Control; Thin Mirrors; Segmented Mirrors; Sharpening the Image; The Big Surveys; The Next Generation
4: Stretching the Spectrum: Infrared and Ultraviolet TelescopesPhotons and Waves; Photons and Electrons; Arrays and CCDs; The Troublesome Atmosphere; Telescopes for the Infrared; VISTA: a Joint Venture; Putting It All Together; The Infrared Sky; Shorter Wavelengths: the Ultraviolet; 5: Into Space; Rocket Science; The Ultraviolet Sky; The Hubble Space Telescope; The James Webb Space Telescope; IRAS, ISO, Spitzer, Akari, and WISE; Herschel in Orbit; Hipparcos and Gaia; Hunting for Planets; 6: X-Rays from Space; The First Surprises; Honeycombs, Pinholes, and Shadows; X-Ray Mirrors Chandra and XMM-NewtonThe X-Ray Sky; Swift; X-Ray Prospects: ATHENA; 7: Gamma Rays and Cosmic Rays; Waves and Photons; Gamma-Ray Bursts; AGILE and the Fermi LAT; Picking up the Pulses; Cosmic Rays; Air Showers; Cherenkov Radiation: the Blue Glow; The Flyś Eye; Sorting Out the Showers; 8: The New Radio Window; Radio from the Sky; The First Steerable Dish; Spin-Off from World War II; The Big Dishes at Jodrell Bank; The Big Dish at Parkes; Bigger and Better Dishes; Dishes Looking Upwards; The Biggest Dish; 9: Pairs and Arrays; Michelsonś Interferometer; Analysis and Synthesis The Cambridge One Mile TelescopeThe Very Large Array; Longer and Longer Baselines; Making the Connection; Into Space with VLBI; 10: Millimetre Waves and Spectral Lines; The Hydrogen and Hydroxyl Lines; More and More Molecules; Millimetre-Wave Telescopes; ALMA; The Gravitational Lens; Herschel and the Infrared; 11: Opening the Cosmos; The Distant Nebulae; Further Back in Time; The Discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background; The Early Universe: Ripples in the Cosmos; The Fine Structure; Planck: the Supreme Cosmology Spacecraft; Polarization; The Theory of the Cosmos, and Two Puzzles The Young Universe DevelopsWhere Next with Cosmology?; 12: Then, Now, and Tomorrow; The Major Telescopes Today; Multibeam Synthesis; Projects and Prospects; The Square Kilometre Array; Astronomy Transformed; Notes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter10; Chapter11; Further Reading; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465307003321 |
Graham-Smith Francis <1923->
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| Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Eyes on the sky : a spectrum of telescopes / / Francis Graham-Smith
| Eyes on the sky : a spectrum of telescopes / / Francis Graham-Smith |
| Autore | Graham-Smith Francis <1923-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Disciplina | 522.2/09 |
| Soggetto topico | Telescopes - History |
| ISBN | 0-19-105360-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Eyes on the Sky: A Spectrum of Telescopes; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; 1: Galileo Opens the Sky; The First Telescope; The Moons of Jupiter; The Next Moves: Kepler; Gregory, Newton, and Herschel; The New Windows; 2: The Big Reflecting Telescopes; Photography; Splitting the Spectrum; Mounting the Monsters; Covering the Sky: the Palomar Schmidt; Bigger and Better; 3: New Ways to Build Big Telescopes; The Altazimuth Mount and Computer Control; Thin Mirrors; Segmented Mirrors; Sharpening the Image; The Big Surveys; The Next Generation
4: Stretching the Spectrum: Infrared and Ultraviolet TelescopesPhotons and Waves; Photons and Electrons; Arrays and CCDs; The Troublesome Atmosphere; Telescopes for the Infrared; VISTA: a Joint Venture; Putting It All Together; The Infrared Sky; Shorter Wavelengths: the Ultraviolet; 5: Into Space; Rocket Science; The Ultraviolet Sky; The Hubble Space Telescope; The James Webb Space Telescope; IRAS, ISO, Spitzer, Akari, and WISE; Herschel in Orbit; Hipparcos and Gaia; Hunting for Planets; 6: X-Rays from Space; The First Surprises; Honeycombs, Pinholes, and Shadows; X-Ray Mirrors Chandra and XMM-NewtonThe X-Ray Sky; Swift; X-Ray Prospects: ATHENA; 7: Gamma Rays and Cosmic Rays; Waves and Photons; Gamma-Ray Bursts; AGILE and the Fermi LAT; Picking up the Pulses; Cosmic Rays; Air Showers; Cherenkov Radiation: the Blue Glow; The Flyś Eye; Sorting Out the Showers; 8: The New Radio Window; Radio from the Sky; The First Steerable Dish; Spin-Off from World War II; The Big Dishes at Jodrell Bank; The Big Dish at Parkes; Bigger and Better Dishes; Dishes Looking Upwards; The Biggest Dish; 9: Pairs and Arrays; Michelsonś Interferometer; Analysis and Synthesis The Cambridge One Mile TelescopeThe Very Large Array; Longer and Longer Baselines; Making the Connection; Into Space with VLBI; 10: Millimetre Waves and Spectral Lines; The Hydrogen and Hydroxyl Lines; More and More Molecules; Millimetre-Wave Telescopes; ALMA; The Gravitational Lens; Herschel and the Infrared; 11: Opening the Cosmos; The Distant Nebulae; Further Back in Time; The Discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background; The Early Universe: Ripples in the Cosmos; The Fine Structure; Planck: the Supreme Cosmology Spacecraft; Polarization; The Theory of the Cosmos, and Two Puzzles The Young Universe DevelopsWhere Next with Cosmology?; 12: Then, Now, and Tomorrow; The Major Telescopes Today; Multibeam Synthesis; Projects and Prospects; The Square Kilometre Array; Astronomy Transformed; Notes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter10; Chapter11; Further Reading; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798424703321 |
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Graham-Smith Francis <1923->
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| Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Eyes on the sky : a spectrum of telescopes / / Francis Graham-Smith
| Eyes on the sky : a spectrum of telescopes / / Francis Graham-Smith |
| Autore | Graham-Smith Francis <1923-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Disciplina | 522.2/09 |
| Soggetto topico | Telescopes - History |
| ISBN | 0-19-105360-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Eyes on the Sky: A Spectrum of Telescopes; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; 1: Galileo Opens the Sky; The First Telescope; The Moons of Jupiter; The Next Moves: Kepler; Gregory, Newton, and Herschel; The New Windows; 2: The Big Reflecting Telescopes; Photography; Splitting the Spectrum; Mounting the Monsters; Covering the Sky: the Palomar Schmidt; Bigger and Better; 3: New Ways to Build Big Telescopes; The Altazimuth Mount and Computer Control; Thin Mirrors; Segmented Mirrors; Sharpening the Image; The Big Surveys; The Next Generation
4: Stretching the Spectrum: Infrared and Ultraviolet TelescopesPhotons and Waves; Photons and Electrons; Arrays and CCDs; The Troublesome Atmosphere; Telescopes for the Infrared; VISTA: a Joint Venture; Putting It All Together; The Infrared Sky; Shorter Wavelengths: the Ultraviolet; 5: Into Space; Rocket Science; The Ultraviolet Sky; The Hubble Space Telescope; The James Webb Space Telescope; IRAS, ISO, Spitzer, Akari, and WISE; Herschel in Orbit; Hipparcos and Gaia; Hunting for Planets; 6: X-Rays from Space; The First Surprises; Honeycombs, Pinholes, and Shadows; X-Ray Mirrors Chandra and XMM-NewtonThe X-Ray Sky; Swift; X-Ray Prospects: ATHENA; 7: Gamma Rays and Cosmic Rays; Waves and Photons; Gamma-Ray Bursts; AGILE and the Fermi LAT; Picking up the Pulses; Cosmic Rays; Air Showers; Cherenkov Radiation: the Blue Glow; The Flyś Eye; Sorting Out the Showers; 8: The New Radio Window; Radio from the Sky; The First Steerable Dish; Spin-Off from World War II; The Big Dishes at Jodrell Bank; The Big Dish at Parkes; Bigger and Better Dishes; Dishes Looking Upwards; The Biggest Dish; 9: Pairs and Arrays; Michelsonś Interferometer; Analysis and Synthesis The Cambridge One Mile TelescopeThe Very Large Array; Longer and Longer Baselines; Making the Connection; Into Space with VLBI; 10: Millimetre Waves and Spectral Lines; The Hydrogen and Hydroxyl Lines; More and More Molecules; Millimetre-Wave Telescopes; ALMA; The Gravitational Lens; Herschel and the Infrared; 11: Opening the Cosmos; The Distant Nebulae; Further Back in Time; The Discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background; The Early Universe: Ripples in the Cosmos; The Fine Structure; Planck: the Supreme Cosmology Spacecraft; Polarization; The Theory of the Cosmos, and Two Puzzles The Young Universe DevelopsWhere Next with Cosmology?; 12: Then, Now, and Tomorrow; The Major Telescopes Today; Multibeam Synthesis; Projects and Prospects; The Square Kilometre Array; Astronomy Transformed; Notes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter10; Chapter11; Further Reading; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814964903321 |
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Graham-Smith Francis <1923->
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| Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| 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 |
| 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 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| 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 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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