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The long route to the invention of the telescope / Rolf Willach.
LIBRA Q11 .P6 v.98:pt.5
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willach, Rolf, 1937-
- Series:
- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 98, pt. 5.
- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Telescopes--History.
- Telescopes.
- Lenses--History.
- Lenses.
- Eyeglasses--History.
- Eyeglasses.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 116 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 2008.
- Contents:
- The critical issue
- The technology of grinding crystals in antiquity and the Middle Ages
- The reading stones (lapides ad legendum)
- The first dioptrical vision aids
- Glass techniques in the Middle Ages and the invention of spectacles
- The development of spectacles in the later Middle Ages and in the Renaissance
- Evolution of the modern lens-grinding technique in the sixteenth century
- Written sources of the sixteenth century concerning the combination of two spectacle glasses
- The events in Holland in the autumn of 1608
- The breakthrough
- Who is the inventor of the telescope?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781606189856
- 1606189859
- OCLC:
- 243845435
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