An acre of glass : a history and forecast of the telescope /
Zirker, Jack B.
An acre of glass : a history and forecast of the telescope / J.B. Zirker. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. - 343 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
The first three hundred years -- The age of Hale -- New windows on the universe -- The rise of the great centers -- The Hubble Space Telescope -- A mirror in many pieces -- Spinning glass -- A profusion of telescopes -- Beating the seeing -- The astronomer's microscope -- Toward the ever-receding horizon -- The future in space.
0801882346 (acidfree paper)
2005007786
Telescopes--History.
QB88 / .Z57 2005
681/.4123
An acre of glass : a history and forecast of the telescope / J.B. Zirker. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. - 343 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
The first three hundred years -- The age of Hale -- New windows on the universe -- The rise of the great centers -- The Hubble Space Telescope -- A mirror in many pieces -- Spinning glass -- A profusion of telescopes -- Beating the seeing -- The astronomer's microscope -- Toward the ever-receding horizon -- The future in space.
0801882346 (acidfree paper)
2005007786
Telescopes--History.
QB88 / .Z57 2005
681/.4123