The long route to the invention of the telescope
By: Rolf Willach.
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge -- v. 98, pt. 5
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781606189856
Subjects: Telescopes -- History; Lenses -- History; Eyeglasses -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The critical issue; title: The technology of grinding crystals in antiquity and the Middle Ages; title: The reading stones (lapides ad legendum); title: The first dioptrical vision aids; title: Glass techniques in the Middle Ages; title: The development of spectacles in the later Middle Ages and in the Renaissance; title: Evolution of the modern lens grinding technique in the sixteenth century; title: Written sources of the sixteenth century concerning the combination of two spectacle glasses; title: The events in Holland in the autumn of 1608; title: The breakthrough; title: Who is the inventor of the telescope?