Invention of the Telescope: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 67, Part 4)

by Albert van Helden

Ours is an age of science and technology, based on precision instruments. The first such device to strengthen our feeble human senses in our striving to comprehend the strange and elusive universe around us was the telescope. Cornelis de Waard, in his "De uitvinding der verrekijkers" (The Hague, 1906), had uncovered many new documents bearing on the genesis of the telescope. Van Helden began this project as a translation of de Waard's study. However,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871696746
• ISBN13: 9780871696748
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 67 Pages