In Search of William Gascoigne Seventeenth Century Astronomer /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Sellers, David (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Σειρά: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 390
• Θέματα: Physics.; History.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; History of Science.; Optics and Electrodynamics.

William Gascoigne (c.1612-44), the first inventor of the telescopic sight and micrometer—instruments crucial to the advance of astronomy—was killed in the English Civil War. His name is now known to historians of science around the world, but for some considerable time after his tragic death at the...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part 1: The ‘Discovery’ of William Gascoigne
• Introduction
• The Gascoignes of Thorp-On-The-Hill
• The ‘Discovery’ of William Gascoigne
• A ‘Light of the First Magnitude’
• Derham and de la Hire
• Bevis and de la Hire
• In His Own Hand
• Part 2: Gascoigne’s World
• The Religious World of William Gascoigne
• The Optical World of William Gascoigne
• The Astronomical World of William Gascoigne
• Part 3: Digging Further
• The Flamsteed Transcriptions
• Bodleian Transcriptions
• British Library MSS and Other Transcriptions
• The Civil War and After
• The Road to Civil War
• After Marston Moor
• The Legacy of William Gascoigne.