In Search of William Gascoigne Seventeenth Century Astronomer /

• Main Author: Sellers, David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 390
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.