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The great Melbourne telescope / Richard Gillespie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gillespie, R. (Richard)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Telescopes--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)--History.
- Telescopes.
- Astronomers--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)--History.
- Astronomers.
- Astronomy--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)--History.
- Astronomy.
- Melbourne Observatory--History.
- Melbourne Observatory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Melbourne : Museum Victoria, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Erected at Melbourne Observatory in 1869, the telescope was the second largest in the world, designed to explore the nature of the nebulae in the southern skies. Richard Gillespie, head of the History and Technology department at the Melbourne museum has written an entertaining account of the telescope's extraordinary history and tells the story through an amazing cast of characters whose lives intersected with the telescope.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; CHAPTER ONE The Southern Telescope; CHAPTER TWO This Noble Object; CHAPTER THREE Engineering Masterpiece; CHAPTER FOUR Controversy; CHAPTER FIVE The Telescope at Work; CHAPTER SIX The Telescope in the City; CHAPTER SEVEN Rebirth; TELESCOPE TYPES; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-170) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-921833-31-9
- OCLC:
- 854971937
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