Book ID: CBB000773705

Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes (2007)

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Ilardi, Vincent (Author)


American Philosophical Society


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xv + 378 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Based on both textual and archaeological sources, traces the early development, diffusion, and commerce of eye glasses in the middle ages up to the discovery of the telescope.


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Review Neri, Janice (2008) Review of "Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes". Technology and Culture (p. 788). unapi

Review Reeves, Eileen (2009) Review of "Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes". Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (p. 561). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Zik, Yaakov
Malet, Antoni
Nordenmark, Nils Viktor Emanuel
Zuidervaart, Huib
Willach, Rolf
Sorrenson, Richard J.
Journals
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
History of Science
Publishers
American Philosophical Society
Antique Telescope Society
Pavia University Press
University of California, Irvine
W. W. Norton & Co.
Verlag Harri Deutsch
Concepts
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Optics
Telescopes
Astronomy
Science and art
Physics
People
Kepler, Johannes
Galilei, Galileo
Eastland, William
Nordenmark, Nils Viktor Emanuel
Vermeer, Johannes
Montanari, Geminiano
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
Renaissance
20th century, late
20th century
Places
England
Netherlands
Great Britain
Dublin (Ireland)
United States
Italy
Institutions
Dollond and Aitchison (firm)
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