Book ID: CBB000330964

Giant Telescopes: Astronomical Ambition and the Promise of Technology (2004)

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McCray, W. Patrick (Author)


Harvard University Press


Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: 367 pp.; illus
Language: English

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Review O'Dell, C.R. (2006) Review of "Giant Telescopes: Astronomical Ambition and the Promise of Technology". Journal for the History of Astronomy (p. 245). unapi

Review Marché, Jordan D., II (2007) Review of "Giant Telescopes: Astronomical Ambition and the Promise of Technology". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 215). unapi

Review Tatarewicz, Joseph N. (2005) Review of "Giant Telescopes: Astronomical Ambition and the Promise of Technology". Technology and Culture (p. 238). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hoskin, Michael A.
Biagioli, Mario
Brenni, Paolo
Bugge, Thomas
Clercq, Peter de
Davoust, Emmanuel
Journals
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
British Journal for the History of Science
History of Science
Indian Journal of History of Science
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise
Publishers
Harvard University
Aarhus Universitetsforlag
CNRS
Museum Boerhaave
Museum of Victoria
The MIT Press
Concepts
Telescopes
Astronomy
Astronomical observatories
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Science and politics
Biographies
People
Herschel, Caroline
Herschel, William
Bugge, Thomas
Encke, Johann Franz
Galilei, Galileo
George III, King of England
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
20th century
17th century
21st century
Places
Germany
Netherlands
Great Britain
Berlin (Germany)
India
Australia
Institutions
Universität Bonn
Hubble Space Telescope
Lowell Observatory
Pulkovo Observatory
Australian National University
Leiden Observatory
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