Eyes on the Universe: The Story of the Telescope

✍ Scribed by Dr Patrick Moore CBE, FRAS (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 128
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Eyes on the Universe is an illustrated history of the telescope, beginning with pre-telescopic observatories and the refractors of Galileo, Lippershey and Digges, and ending with the most modern instruments including - of course - the Hubble Space Telescope. Written by Dr Patrick Moore CBE, to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the world's longest-running television programme, the BBC's The Sky at Night, the book takes an enthusiastic look at the development of astronomical telescopes. It provides its readers with a fascinating overview of the way astronomical telescopes have evolved with technology during the past 450 years. Amateur and professional astronomers alike will find this book both entertaining and instructive.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Before the Telescope....Pages 1-6
The Very first Telescope....Pages 7-12
Aerial Telescopes - and others....Pages 13-18
Enter the Reflector....Pages 19-25
William Herschel....Pages 26-33
The “Leviathan of Parsonstown”....Pages 34-42
The Age of the Great Refractors....Pages 43-52
George Ellery Hale and the Hooker Telescope....Pages 53-59
Palomar....Pages 60-68
The New Telescopes....Pages 69-81
The Summit of Mauna Kea....Pages 82-87
From Sussex to La Palma....Pages 88-94
Telescopes of Many Kinds....Pages 95-101
Telescopes Beyond the Earth....Pages 102-107
Back Matter....Pages 108-120

✦ Subjects

Astronomy, Observations and Techniques; Astrophysics and Astroparticles