This remarkable history encompasses not only the achievements of the early inventors and astronomers but also the less frequently recounted stories of the instr

Tells the story, visionary by visionary and discovery by discovery, of the telescope, one of the few inventions that have revolutionized our view of the univers

This work presents information about telescopes, their construction, and their properties. It's a telescopic history before World War II and was written with th

The main object of the following chapters is to give a brief and simple description of the most important and interesting facts concerning the heavenly bodies,