The Long Route to the Invention of the Telescope: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 98, Part 5) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781606189856)

After the telescope became known in 1608-1609, a number of people in widely separate locations claimed that they had such a device long before the announcement came from The Hague; in the summer of 1608, no one had a telescope, in the summer of 1609, everyone had one. For a number of years author Rolf Willach has quietly tested early spectacle lenses in museums and private collections, and now he reports on this study, which gives an entirely new explanation of the invention of the telescope and solves the conundrum mentioned above. Willach is an optical engineer and independent scholar who worked for several years at the Inst. of Astronomy in Bern. He has written extensively on the history of the development of optics and the telescope. Illus.

Author: Rolf Willach
ISBN-10: 1606189859
ISBN-13: 9781606189856
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2008
Pages: 116
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.38d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 03/01/2009 pg. 42