Book Fontana, Francesco; (2001)
New Observations of Heavenly and Earthly Objects

Article Paolo Molaro; (2017)
Francesco Fontana and the birth of the astronomical telescope

Book Sellers, David; (2012)
In Search of William Gascoigne: Seventeenth Century Astronomer

Article Paolo Del Santo; (2009)
On an unpublished letter of Francesco Fontana to the Grand-duke of Tuscany Ferdinand II de' Medici

Article Filippo Camerota; (2004)
Galileo's Eye: Linear Perspectives and Visual Astronomy

Book Nils Viktor Emanuel Nordenmark; (2016)
The Invention of the Achromatic and Aplanatic Lens: With Special Regard to the Role Played by Samuel Klingenstierna

Book Hamel, Jürgen; Keil, Inge; (2007)
Der Meister und die Fernrohre: Das Wechselspiel zwischen Astronomie und Optik in der Geschichte

Article Paolo Del Santo; (2023)
Notes for a Chronology of the Telescope-Making Activities of the Neapolitan Optician Francesco Fontana

Article Paolo Molaro; (2023)
On the Origin of the Keplerian Telescope

Chapter Abrahams, Peter; (2007)
When an Eye Is Armed with a Telescope: The Dioptrics of William and Samuel Molyneux

Article Malet, Antoni; (2003)
Kepler and the Telescope

Article Bònoli, Fabrizio; Miniati, Mara; Greco, Vincenzo; Molesini, Giuseppe; (2002)
Telescope Optics of Montanari, Cellio, Campani, and Bruni at the Museo della Specola in Bologna

Article Zik, Yaakov; (2002)
Galileo and Optical Aberrations

Article Zik, Yaakov; (2003)
Kepler and the Telescope

Book Hamou, Philippe; (1999)
La Mutation du visible: Essai sur la portée épistémologique des instruments d'optique au XVIIe siécle.

Book Willach, Rolf; (2008)
The Long Route to the Invention of the Telescope

Article Malet, Antoni; (2005)
Early Conceptualizations of the Telescope as an Optical Instrument

Book Burnett, D. Graham; (2005)
Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens Making Machines and Their Significance in the Seventeenth Century

Chapter Glasemann, Reinhard; (2004)
Die katoptrische Wunderwaffe. Zur Vorgeschichte des Spiegelteleskops

Article Sven Dupré; (2005)
Ausonio's mirrors and Galileo's lenses: the telescope and sixteenth-century practical optical knowledge