A History of Optical Telescopes in Astronomy

• Main Author: Wall, Wilson (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Historical & Cultural Astronomy,
• Subjects: Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy-Observations.; History.; Technology-History.; Physics.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; History of Science.; History of Technology.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

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 im...