From Earth-bound to satellite : telescopes, skills, and networks /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2012.
Description:1 online resource (xxix, 265 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
Series:History of science and medicine library ; v. 23
Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 2
History of science and medicine library ; v. 23.
History of science and medicine library. Scientific instruments and collections ; v. 2.
Subject:
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11124900
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Morrison-Low, A. D.
ISBN:9789004214613
9004214615
9789004211506
9004211500
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Marking the anniversary of the telescope's invention, these collected essays highlight a number of significant historical episodes concerning this well-loved instrument, which has played a crucial role in Man's thinking about his position - literally and philosophically - in the universe.
Other form:Print version: From Earth-bound to satellite. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2012 9789004211506
Standard no.:9786613334701

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000Ka 4500
001 11124900
005 20210426223824.5
006 m o d
007 cr cnu---unuuu
008 120221s2012 ne a ob 001 0 eng d
010 |z  2011037982 
016 7 |a 015869964  |2 Uk 
019 |a 768167354  |a 961492867  |a 962717032  |a 966264751  |a 988408292  |a 991997264  |a 994925850  |a 1037763240  |a 1038640892  |a 1045443375  |a 1055373742  |a 1058010812  |a 1062914817  |a 1081291469  |a 1153539038  |a 1228605706 
020 |a 9789004214613  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |a 9004214615  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |z 9789004211506 
020 |z 9004211500 
024 8 |a 9786613334701 
035 |a (OCoLC)777548338  |z (OCoLC)768167354  |z (OCoLC)961492867  |z (OCoLC)962717032  |z (OCoLC)966264751  |z (OCoLC)988408292  |z (OCoLC)991997264  |z (OCoLC)994925850  |z (OCoLC)1037763240  |z (OCoLC)1038640892  |z (OCoLC)1045443375  |z (OCoLC)1055373742  |z (OCoLC)1058010812  |z (OCoLC)1062914817  |z (OCoLC)1081291469  |z (OCoLC)1153539038  |z (OCoLC)1228605706 
035 9 |a (OCLCCM-CC)777548338 
037 |a 333470  |b MIL 
040 |a N$T  |b eng  |e pn  |c N$T  |d CDX  |d E7B  |d YDXCP  |d UIU  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCF  |d DEBSZ  |d OCLCQ  |d AZK  |d LOA  |d OCLCO  |d AGLDB  |d MOR  |d CCO  |d OCLCA  |d PIFAG  |d ZCU  |d OTZ  |d MERUC  |d OCLCQ  |d U3W  |d STF  |d WRM  |d VTS  |d NRAMU  |d ICG  |d INT  |d VT2  |d AU@  |d OCLCQ  |d WYU  |d OCLCQ  |d LEAUB  |d DKC  |d OCLCQ  |d M8D  |d OCLCQ  |d HS0  |d UKCRE  |d UKAHL  |d AJS 
049 |a MAIN 
050 4 |a QB88  |b .F86 2012eb 
072 7 |a NAT  |x 033000  |2 bisacsh 
245 0 0 |a From Earth-bound to satellite :  |b telescopes, skills, and networks /  |c edited by Alison D. Morrison-Low [and others]. 
260 |a Leiden ;  |a Boston :  |b Brill,  |c ©2012. 
300 |a 1 online resource (xxix, 265 pages) :  |b illustrations (some color) 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
490 1 |a History of science and medicine library ;  |v v. 23 
490 1 |a Scientific instruments and collections ;  |v v. 2 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
505 0 |a List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Introduction: Writing the History of the Telescope: Makers, Markets and Mapping; Colour Plates I-XIII; Galileo's Shopping List: An Overlooked Document about Early Telescope Making; Johann Wiesel's Telescopes and his Clientele; The 'Invisible Technician' Made Visible: Telescope Making in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-century Dutch Republic; The Art of Polishing: Practice and Prose in Eighteenth-century Telescope Making 
505 8 |a Networks of Telescope Makers and the Evolution of Skill: Evidence from Observatory and Museum CollectionsScoping Longitude: Optical Designs for Navigation at Sea; Following the Stars: Clockwork for Telescopes in the Nineteenth Century; Telescopes Made in Berlin: From Carl Bamberg to Askania; Wide-Field Photographic Telescopes: The Yale, Harvard and Harvard/Smithsonian Meteor and Satellite Camera Networks; The Making of Space Astronomy: A Gift of the Cold War; General Index 
520 |a Marking the anniversary of the telescope's invention, these collected essays highlight a number of significant historical episodes concerning this well-loved instrument, which has played a crucial role in Man's thinking about his position - literally and philosophically - in the universe. 
650 0 |a Telescopes  |x History. 
650 7 |a NATURE  |x Sky Observation.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Telescopes.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01146496 
650 7 |a Fernrohr  |2 gnd 
648 7 |a Geschichte.  |2 swd 
655 0 |a Electronic books. 
655 4 |a Aufsatzsammlung. 
655 4 |a Electronic books. 
655 7 |a History.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 
700 1 |a Morrison-Low, A. D. 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |t From Earth-bound to satellite.  |d Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2012  |z 9789004211506  |w (DLC) 2011037982  |w (OCoLC)748330781 
830 0 |a History of science and medicine library ;  |v v. 23.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007020911 
830 0 |a History of science and medicine library.  |p Scientific instruments and collections ;  |v v. 2.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009014939 
903 |a HeVa 
929 |a oclccm 
999 f f |i 4ddd530e-c1e1-5d98-8de0-eae36a9b9a90  |s 2173d75a-ee1f-581b-9f45-a298c991c566 
928 |t Library of Congress classification  |a QB88 .F86 2012eb  |l Online  |c UC-FullText  |u https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=e000xna&AN=408461  |z eBooks on EBSCOhost  |g ebooks  |i 12364281