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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: History of Optical Telescopes in Astronomy
  name:
    name part: Wall, Wilson.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 173 p. 45 illus., 31 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book is uniquely about the relationship between the optical telescope and astronomy as they developed together. It covers the time between the telescope's pivotal invention in the 1600's up to the modern era of space-based telescopes. Over the intervening centuries, there were huge improvements in the optical resolution of telescopes, along with changes in their positioning and nature of application that forever altered the course of astronomy. For a long time, the field was an exclusive club for self-motivated stargazers who could afford to build their own telescopes. Many of these leisure-time scholars left their mark by virtue of their meticulous observations and record keeping. Although they would now be considered amateurs, these figures and their contributions were pivotal and are covered in this book alongside professionals, for the first time giving a complete picture of the history of telescopic science.
  table of contents: Preface -- Table of Contents -- Book Summary -- Chapter 1: Astronomy as a Science in Need of a Tool -- Chapter 2: The Invention of the Telescope -- Chapter 3: Developments in Optics and the Newly Invented Telescope -- Chapter 4: Aerial Refractor Telescopes and the Development of Reflectors -- Chapter 5: The Ascent of the Mirror Lens and Reflecting Telescopes -- Chapter 6: Industrial Life Creating Fine Instruments and Polluting the Skies -- Chapter 7: Moving Observations off the Planet -- Chapter 8: The Hubble Space Telescope -- Chapter 9: The Future: James Webb and Beyond -- Chapter 10: Timeline of the Optical Telescope -- Chapter 11: People in the Text -- Index. .
  note: by Wilson Wall.
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy-Observations
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Technology-History
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: History of Technology
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  classification: QB4
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Historical & Cultural Astronomy
  identifier: 9783319990880
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99088-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 181001
    record change date: 20191028152201.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-99088-0