From Earth-Bound to Satellite
Telescopes, Skills and Networks
Edited by Alison D. Morrison-Low, National Museums Scotland, Sven Dupré, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Free University of Berlin, Stephen Johnston, Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford, and Giorgio Strano, Museo Galileo, Florence
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Biographical note
Alison D. Morrison-Low, D.Phil. (2000) in Economic History with Physics, University of York, Principal Curator of Science at National Museums Scotland since 1980. Her recent publications explore the English instrument trade, for which she won the 2008 Paul Bunge Prize.
Sven Dupré, Ph.D. (2002) in Philosophy, Ghent University,is Research Group Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Professor of History of Knowledge at the Free University of Berlin. His recent publications focus on the history of optics and the telescope.
Stephen Johnston, Ph.D. (1994) in History of Science, University of Cambridge, is Assistant Keeper at the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford. His publications focus on instruments and practical mathematics from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Giorgio Strano, Ph.D. (2003) in History of Science, University of Florence, is Curator of the Collections at Museo Galileo in Florence. He has published extensively on the history of astronomy, including "Galileo's Telescope" (2008).
Sven Dupré, Ph.D. (2002) in Philosophy, Ghent University,is Research Group Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Professor of History of Knowledge at the Free University of Berlin. His recent publications focus on the history of optics and the telescope.
Stephen Johnston, Ph.D. (1994) in History of Science, University of Cambridge, is Assistant Keeper at the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford. His publications focus on instruments and practical mathematics from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Giorgio Strano, Ph.D. (2003) in History of Science, University of Florence, is Curator of the Collections at Museo Galileo in Florence. He has published extensively on the history of astronomy, including "Galileo's Telescope" (2008).
Readership
All those interested in the history of science and technology, the history of scientific instruments, the history of astronomy from the 17th to the 20th centuries, and institutional and social history.
Table of contents
List 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
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
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