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

1. Thomas Harriot, England’s First Telescopist
2. The Legacy of Galileo
3. The Chequered Career of Simon Marius
4. The Era of Long Telescopes
5. Workers of Speculum
6. Charles Messier; the Ferret of Comets
7. Thomas Jefferson and his Telescopic Forays
8. The Herschel Legacy
9. Thinking Big: The Pioneers of Parsonstown
10. The Astronomical Adventures of William Lassell
11. Friedrich W. Bessel: The Man who Dared to Measure
12. W.H Smyth: The Admirable Admiral
13. The Stellar Contributions of Wilhelm von Struve
14. The Eagle-Eyed Reverend William Rutter Dawes
15. The Telescopes of the Reverend Thomas William Webb
16. The Astronomical Adventures of the Artistic Nathaniel Everett Green
17. Edward Emerson Barnard, the Early Years
18. William F. Denning; a Biographical Sketch
19. A Modern Commentary on W.F. Denning’s “Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings (1891)”
20. The Astronomical Legacy of Asaph Hall
21. The Life and Work of Charles Grover(1842-1921)
22. Angelo Secchi; Father of Modern Astrophysics
23. John Birmingham, T.H.E.C Espin and the Search for Red Stars
24. A Historic Clark Receives a New Lease of Life
25. A Short Commentary on Percival Lowell’s “Mars as the Abode of Life”
26. The Great Meudon Refractor
27. A Short Commentary of R.G. Aitken’s “The Binary Stars”
28. S.W. Burnham; a Life Behind the Eyepiece
29. Voyage to the Panets: The Astronomical Forays of Arthur Stanley Williams( 1861-1938)
30. Explorer of the Planets: The Contributions of the Reverend T.E.R. Philips
31. Highlights from the Life of Leslie C. Peltier
32. Clyde W. Tombaugh; Discoverer of Pluto
33. A Short Commentary on Walter Scott Houston’s “Deep Sky Wonders”
34. A Short Commentary on David H. Levy’s  “The Quest for Comets”
35. George Alcock and the Historic Ross Refractor
36. What Happened to Robert Burnham Junior?
37. The Impact of Mount Wilson’s 60-inch Reflector.
38. Seeing Saturnian Spots
39. John Dobson and His Revolution
40. The Telescopes of Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012)
41. A Gift of a Telescope: The Japan 400 Project

Appendix:

Achievements of the Classical Refractor: A Timeline

Index

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