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
Malet, Antoni
Zik, Yaakov
Abrahams, Peter
Bònoli, Fabrizio
Burnett, D. Graham
Camerota, Filippo
Journals
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
History of Science
Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis
Publishers
American Philosophical Society
Presses Universitaires du Septentrion
Springer
Verlag Harri Deutsch
W. W. Norton & Co.
Pavia University Press
Concepts
Optics
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Telescopes
Astronomy
Physics
Science and art
People
Dollond, John
Galilei, Galileo
Hall, Chester Moor
Kepler, Johannes
Bruno, Giordano
Campani, Giuseppe
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
Renaissance
Places
Netherlands
Great Britain
England
France
Italy
Dublin (Ireland)
Institutions
Dollond and Aitchison (firm)
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