{"product_id":"from-earth-bound-to-satellite-telescopes-skills-and-networks-9789004211506","title":"From Earth-Bound to Satellite: Telescopes, Skills and Networks","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume forms a part of the celebrations marking the anniversary of the invention of the telescope. From its Renaissance beginnings to yesterday’s Cold War, the essays contributed here throw a spotlight on a number of significant episodes in the continuing adventures of this well-loved instrument, which has played a crucial role in Man’s thinking about his position – literally and philosophically – in the universe. Drawn from various conferences held by the Scientific Instrument Commission of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science between 2007 and 2009, these papers make a substantial contribution to our current knowledge about this fascinating optical instrument.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"From Earth-Bound to Satellite is a superb and richly illustrated collection of essays on the history of the telescope [...] Perhaps the greatest strength of the book lies in its fifteen authors and editors eing such well-known scholars of the history of scientific instruments.\"   – Alexi Baker, University of Cambridge, in: The British Journal for the History of Science 47, pp 181-182    \"The many subjects in this volume and their span over space and time will attract a broad and appreciative audience of historians.\"  – Patrick J. Boner, Johns Hopkins University, in: Renaissance Quarterly 65\/4 (Winter 2012), pp. 1232-1233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors    Foreword, Alison D. Morrison-Low    Introduction: Writing the History of the Telescope: Makers, Markets and Mapping, Sven Dupré    Galileo’s Shopping List: An Overlooked Document about Early Telescope Making, Giorgio Strano     Johann Wiesel’s Telescopes and his Clientele, Inge Keil    The ‘Invisible Technician’ Made Visible: Telescope Making in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-century Dutch Republic, Huib J. Zuidervaart    The Art of Polishing: Practice and Prose in Eighteenth-century Telescope Making, Jim A. Bennett    Networks of Telescope Makers and the Evolution of Skill: Evidence from Observatory and Museum Collections, Gloria C. Clifton    Scoping Longitude: Optical Designs for Navigation at Sea, Richard Dunn    Following the Stars: Clockwork for Telescopes in the Nineteenth Century, James Caplan    Telescopes Made in Berlin: From Carl Bamberg to Askania, Gudrun Wolfschmidt    Wide-Field Photographic Telescopes: The Yale, Harvard and Harvard\/Smithsonian Meteor and Satellite Camera Networks, Teasel Muir-Harmony, David H. DeVorkin, Peter Abrahams    The Making of Space Astronomy: A Gift of the Cold War, Robert W. Smith    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210626195799,"sku":"9789004211506","price":127.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-earth-bound-to-satellite-telescopes-skills-and-networks-9789004211506","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}