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The Telescope's History "Once Over Lightly"

Decent overview of the history of telescopes and those who used and made them

Worth reading for the telescope lover, but ...

A satisfying blend of history and science which charts the telescope's invention, evolution, importance, and modern abilities

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Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope
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A lively and well-illustrated history of the development of the telescope and its impact on science and society

The telescope is undoubtedly one of the world's most far-reaching inventions. For the past four centuries the telescope has stood at the forefront of human discovery. From its humble beginnings in seventeenth-century Holland, when a simple spectacle-maker first presented his invention to his country's military leaders, to today's colossal structures housed in space-age cathedrals, the telescope has unlocked nature's secrets. And in the past decade, the Hubble Space Telescope has brought us to the very edges of the universe, and the very beginning of time. How did the telescope -a potent mix of art, science, and engineering-reach its present level of sophistication?

The history of the telescope is a rich story of human ingenuity and perseverance involving some of the most colorful figures of the scientific world -Galileo, Johann Kepler, Isaac Newton, William Herschel, George Ellery Hale, and Edwin Hubble. Stargazer brings to life the story of these brilliant, and sometime quirky, scientists as they turned their eyes and ideas beyond what anyone thought possible.

Professor Fred Watson, one of Australia's top astronomers, writes clearly and skillfully, without technical jargon but with a dash of humor, explaining the science and technology behind the telescope, and the enormous impact that it has had for four hundred years on how we have come to understand our universe.

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The Telescope's History "Once Over Lightly".......2007-02-04

When individuals such as Galileo first turned a new invention, the telescope, on the nighttime skies about 1600 they began a process that has revolutionized humanity's understanding of the visible universe. Fred Watson's short history and commentary seeks to record the evolution of the telescope from the first simple tubes to the modern instrument. This is an accessible history, understandable to virtually all readers and for those without a basic background in astronomy a helpful glossary explains terms while another appendix catalogs what the author refers to as "The World's Great Telescopes."

Of course, the early history of the telescope is steeped in myth. Galileo, often believed to be its inventor, first heard about telescopes in 1608 and immediately grasped their importance for astronomy. He employed one in his observations and in 1609 discovered the first moons of Jupiter, setting in train a set of circumstances that transformed the human vision of the heavens. Fred Watson is at his best in describing this story, and in explaining the technology that Galileo and other early astronomers used. His was a refracting telescope, defined as "a telescope whose main light-collecting component is a convex glass lens or combination of lenses" (pp. 326-27). But refractors were prone to spherical aberrations and other anomalies, hence the rise of another type of telescope, the reflector. These telescopes used a concave mirror to collect and focus light, and found spectacular application by such scientists as Isaac Newton. While the optics, pointing systems, materials used, and other peripherals have become much more complicated over time, those two basic types of telescopes remain dominant within astronomy to this day.

Watson proceeds chronologically through the history of the telescope, focusing on the efforts of the great builders, which have often also been its most prominent users. He pauses to tell the fascinating story of William and Caroline Herschel, the sibling team who built massive (at least for their time) telescopes and explored the heavens with path-breaking results at the height of the Enlightenment in the latter eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Likewise, he discussed the efforts of George Ellery Hale to build and use the largest telescopes available in the nineteenth century, as well as William Parsons, George Willis Ritchie, Richard Reeve, and many others.

In the period since World War II, which only receives one chapter in this book, telescopes and the science they support underwent enormous change as astronomers substantively moved beyond the visible light spectrum to observe the skies in IR, UV, and other frequencies not registered by the human eye. Likewise, the placement of telescopes on spacecraft changed the situation as well. Both of these moves, as well as others of a more subtle nature transformed astronomy. Fred Watson discusses, but does not dwell on, these changes.

In many ways "Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope" provides a fine introduction to the history of the telescope. It is not a sophisticated historical work, and readers will want to look elsewhere for more complex historical analysis. But it provides a fine "once over lightly" narrative.

Decent overview of the history of telescopes and those who used and made them.......2006-04-07

_Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope_ by Fred Watson is an epic, far-ranging history of one of the most important instruments in science. Watson traced the origin and development of the telescope from nearly four hundred years ago, when Dutch craftsmen Hans Lipperhey first brought to the world's attention the telescope in 1608 (the author demonstrated that though he gets credit for first bringing it to international attention, he is perhaps not the instrument's original inventor, as there were at least several near simultaneous separate inventions of it), all the way to the present with the impressive orbiting Hubble telescope.

The book is at times as much a history of astronomy as it is of the telescope, chronicling some of the lives of such luminaries as Galileo, Johannes Kepler, William Herschel, and George Ellery Hale and many of the big discoveries, such as the discoveries of the cloud belts of Jupiter, Saturn's rings, the planet Uranus, the moons of Mars, and the first spiral galaxy. Some of the most interesting accounts were of people and discoveries virtually unknown to the general public, such as that of William Gascoigne, a brilliant man who invented the telescopic sight by accident when he saw a spider drop between the objective and the eyepiece, leaving a thread behind it, leading him to develop two crossed threads that would enable an astronomer to point precisely at a star, and who also invented another device (also used in the focus of any eyepiece) that allowed for measuring the angular diameter of the Sun or Moon and the distances between close pairs of stars. Tragically, his life was cut short when he was killed in the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, part of the English Civil War (he was only 24).

The focus of the book however was on the origin and evolution of the telescope, the author detailing each new development in telescope technology, supplying the reader with diagrams to discern the inner workings of such advancements as the Keplerian or inverting telescope (one in which the field of view is independent of the diameter of the objective, replacing some of the problems with the Galilean telescope) and the Cassegrain telescope (one that used a convex secondary mirror to intercept the beam from the main paraboloid mirror before it formed an image, refocusing it back in such as way that an image was formed that could be magnified with an ordinary lens eyepiece behind the mirror). Of near equal importance was the evolution of telescope mounts, devices that held the telescope and allowed it to track the movement of celestial objects across the sky. Though there were some contemporary illustrations of various mounts, I wish there had been more diagrams for such arrangements as the equatorial mounting, English equatorial, and German equatorial to assist the lay reader.

Problems in telescope development were discussed, issues that bedeviled generations of astronomers and engineers, including chromatic aberration (when colored halos appear around images, a problem that mystified astronomers for many decades and was not corrected until two or more lenses were used in combination, lenses whose respective color errors would cancel each other out), comas (when stars take on the appearance of comets with short tails), and spherical aberration (a blurring of images resulting from objective lenses with curved surfaces, as the focused beams of light from a celestial object would fail to cross at a single point).

The history of famous and noteworthy individual telescopes was a very interesting feature of the book. Early telescope makers solved the problems of chromatic and spherical aberration by making the focal length of an objective very long in comparison with its diameter, reducing both aberrations to a level that would not be noticeable, resulting in long, spindly telescopes. Johannes Hevelius, a seventeenth century amateur in the city of Danzig, built a monstrous telescope whose focal length was 150 feet long, supported from a mast 90 feet high, its working more like the rigging of a sailing ship than an optical instrument, so ungainly that a fair number of men were needed to move and point it in the right direction and that any breeze would leave it quivering uncontrollably, making observation difficult. Another notable one is William Herschel's Forty-foot telescope, a massive for the time 48 inches in diameter, the telescope that he is best remembered for and one that still adorns the seal of the Royal Astronomical Society, an expensive object that would not have come to fruition without financial support from King George III (an early forerunner of national funding for scientific projects), and that when it came into use in 1789 proved something of a disappointment, thanks to high copper content of the mirrors (which tarnished rapidly and required frequent repolishing), difficult to manage without two additional workmen, and of course the famous British weather (though the telescope was maintained despite regular scientific usage to impress the King's guests as after all he did pay for it). Still another one was the Irish telescope named the Leviathan of Parsonstown, a massive telescope that was first used in 1845, its four tonne mirror taking sixteen weeks to cool once cast (and had to be cast five times owing to faulty cooling and accidents), an instrument that while it did produce some good science (discovering sixty "spiral nebulae" - they weren't know as galaxies yet), did not live up to its full potential, thanks to attentions being focused elsewhere due to the catastrophic potato famine of 1845-1848, and was dismantled in the early 20th century though between 1996 and 1998 it was lovingly restored to full working order with a new aluminum mirror and a modern hydraulic system to move it.

A good book, I thought some of the explanations could have been better. It had many contemporary illustrations, copious endnotes, an extensive bibliography, a glossary, a listing of famous telescopes today, and a global map showing their relative positions in the world today.

Worth reading for the telescope lover, but ..........2006-01-14

This is a book I really wanted to like, and I don't regret reading it. That said, this is more a book for people interested in learning a few more details about the pre-1900 history of the telescope than a book to get someone excited about the development of the telescope.

Overall the prose is serviceable, if a bit pedestrian. But it is uneven, with some excellent passages and some that are a bit of a slog. Up through the late nineteenth century the author presents all the major threads of the story, but toward the end the book becomes more a series of highlights rather than a survey of developments. My sense in reading it was that the author ran out of steam and couldn't handle the twentieth century in the depth he managed for earlier epochs. Recent developments in eight to ten meter telescopes are barely mentioned. He provides a superficial discussion of radio telescopes, but doesn't mention solar telescopes. Space telescopes are briefly mentioned, but their history is barely scratched. The epilogue, looking back from year 2108, is more cute that informative.

Yes, read this book if you are interested in telescopes. But be prepared for a sense of unfulfilled promise, as this book could have been so much more ...

A satisfying blend of history and science which charts the telescope's invention, evolution, importance, and modern abilities.......2005-11-08

At the heart of any astronomical discussion is the telescope, which brought the science to life; so at the heart of any school or public library holding including astrology should be Fred Watson's Stargazer: The Life And Times Of The Telescope, a satisfying blend of history and science which charts the telescope's invention, evolution, importance, and modern abilities. Dr. Watson is Astronomer-in-Charge of the Anglo-Australian Observatory in Australia, responsible for the scientific output of the country's largest optical telescope: this survey Stargazer provides a pleasing modern history.

A satisfying blend of history and science which charts the telescope's invention, evolution, importance, and modern abilities.......2005-11-08

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