This is an excellent book and will complement Ashbrook’s Astronomical Scrapbook and therefore have wide appeal to both amateur and professional astronomers.
Wayne Orchiston, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Book Content:
Introduction & Acknowledgements
- Thomas Harriot, England’s First Telescopist
- The Legacy of Galileo
- The Chequered Career of Simon Marius
- The Era of Long Telescopes
- Workers of Speculum
- Charles Messier; the Ferret of Comets
- Thomas Jefferson and his Telescopic Forays
- The Herschel Legacy
- Thinking Big: The Pioneers of Parsonstown
- The Astronomical Adventures of William Lassell
- Friedrich W. Bessel: The Man who Dared to Measure
- W.H Smyth: The Admirable Admiral
- The Stellar Contributions of Wilhelm von Struve
- The Eagle-Eyed Reverend William Rutter Dawes
- The Telescopes of the Reverend Thomas William Webb
- The Astronomical Adventures of the Artistic Nathaniel Everett Green
- Edward Emerson Barnard, the Early Years
- William F. Denning; a Biographical Sketch
- A Modern Commentary on W.F. Denning’s “Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings (1891)”
- The Astronomical Legacy of Asaph Hall
- The Life and Work of Charles Grover(1842-1921)
- Angelo Secchi; Father of Modern Astrophysics
- John Birmingham, T.H.E.C Espin and the Search for Red Stars
- A Historic Clark Receives a New Lease of Life
- A Short Commentary on Percival Lowell’s “Mars as the Abode of Life”
- The Great Meudon Refractor
- A Short Commentary of R.G. Aitken’s “The Binary Stars”
- S.W. Burnham; a Life Behind the Eyepiece
- Voyage to the Panets: The Astronomical Forays of Arthur Stanley Williams( 1861-1938)
- Explorer of the Planets: The Contributions of the Reverend T.E.R. Philips
- Highlights from the Life of Leslie C. Peltier
- Clyde W. Tombaugh; Discoverer of Pluto
- A Short Commentary on Walter Scott Houston’s “Deep Sky Wonders”
- A Short Commentary on David H. Levy’s “The Quest for Comets”
- George Alcock and the Historic Ross Refractor
- What Happened to Robert Burnham Junior?
- The Impact of Mount Wilson’s 60-inch Reflector.
- Seeing Saturnian Spots
- John Dobson and His Revolution
- The Telescopes of Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012)
- A Gift of a Telescope: The Japan 400 Project
Appendix:
Achievements of the Classical Refractor: A Timeline
Index
Thankyou for waiting!
De Fideli.