From Earth-Bound to Satellite

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

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