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Zirker, Jack B.
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Telescopes -- History.
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An acre of glass : a history and forecast of the telescope / J.B. Zirker.
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Zirker, Jack B.
Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
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Telescopes -- History.
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005007786.html
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0801882346 (acid-free paper)
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343 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents:
The first three hundred years -- The age of Hale -- New windows on the universe -- The rise of the great centers -- The Hubble Space Telescope -- A mirror in many pieces -- Spinning glass -- A profusion of telescopes -- Beating the seeing -- The astronomer's microscope -- Toward the ever-receding horizon -- The future in space.
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