Magnification: how to turn a spyglass into an astronomical telescope

DOI10.1007/S00407-012-0099-4zbMath1263.01008OpenAlexW1993530479MaRDI QIDQ1937810

Yaakov Zik, Giora Hon

Publication date: 1 February 2013

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-012-0099-4

zbMATH Keywords

Galileo Galileitelescope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03)

Related Items (1)

Francesco Fontana (1580--1656) from practice to rules of calculation of lens systems

Cites Work

• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Unnamed Item
• Euclid's optics and its compatibility with linear perspective
• Science and Instruments: The telescope as a scientific instrument at the beginning of the seventeenth century
• Kepler's Move from Orbs to Orbits: Documenting a Revolutionary Scientific Concept
• Kepler and the Telescope
• The Development of Telescope Optics in the Middle of the Seventeenth Century
• Ptolemy, Alhazen, and Kepler and the Problem of Optical Images
• Kepler's Optical Part of Astronomy (1604): Introducing the Ecliptic Instrument
• The Optics of Euclid1

This page was built for publication: Magnification: how to turn a spyglass into an astronomical telescope