Zirker, Jack B. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0801882346 (acidfree paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005007786 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Telescopes--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QB88  / .Z57 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>681/.4123