The invention of the telescope
 Catalogue Number: 1979 The invention of the telescope Category: Book Sub-Category: Hewett collection Author: VAN HELDEN, Albert Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 2008 Edition: 2nd printing Time Period: 21st C Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Philadephia Publisher/Manufacturer: American Philosophical Society Description Of Item: Quarto size paperback, colour printed stiff card covers, 67 pages, 3 illustrations, index, introduction to the second printing, foreword by Edward Rosen and a section on documents. Originally printed as the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadephia for promoting useful knowledge Volume 67, Part 4, 1977. Historical Significance: The year of publication of this reprint, 2008, was the 400th anniversary of the existence of the telescope. The invention of the telescope depended on the development of the tehniques for producing lenses with suitable optical properties. In part this depended on the development of better optics for spectacles that were devised about 1280 and were improved in optical quality over the next 200 years . That story is told in more detail in the book by Rolf Willach 'The long route to the telescope' (2008) See Cat No 1977. Condition: Mint Location: Nathan Library. Hewett collection |