{"product_id":"the-history-of-the-telescope-9780486432656","title":"The History of the Telescope","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This book is one that I can heartily recommend.\" -- Sir Harold Spencer Jones, F. R. S., formerly Astronomer Royal\u003cbr\u003eA model of comprehensive scholarship, \u003ci\u003eThe History of the Telescope \u003c\/i\u003erelates not only the stories of early inventors and astronomers but also the rarely recorded details of the instruments themselves and their makers. This remarkable chronicle covers many fields, including professional and amateur astronomy, optics, glass and lens technology, and the craft of the precision instrument.\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Henry C. King bases his accounts primarily on first-hand sources -- the letters, memoirs, papers, and treatises of the men who worked with telescopes. The great intellects (Roger Bacon, Galileo, Newton) and innovators (Tycho Brahe, Huygens, Hooke, Sir William Herschel) receive their due, along with lesser-known craftsmen and amateurs: the seventeenth-century Italian telescope makers Campani and Divini; the great London instrument artists Graham, Dolland, and Ramsden; and the experimenters Foucault and Brashear, whose contributions to mirror manufacture remain fundamental to all levels of astronomical endeavor. The modern-day successors of these men and their achievements bring this history to its conclusion in the mid-twentieth century, with profiles of the instruments still in use today.\u003cbr\u003eA prime resource on the evolution of the telescope, this volume is magnificently illustrated with nearly 200 portraits, diagrams, and photographs. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dover Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780486432656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.36h x 6.34w x 0.97d","brand":"Henry C. King","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36637783523484,"sku":"9780486432656","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_14d09399-b679-4be3-9b5d-9f6ec6f1007b.jpg?v=1603845681","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-history-of-the-telescope-9780486432656","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}