In Search of William Gascoigne

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Seventeenth Century Astronomer, Astrophysics and Space Science Library 390

ISBN: 1489995749
ISBN 13: 9781489995742
Autor: Sellers, David
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: x, 222 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2014
Auflage: 1/2014
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: KT

William Gascoigne (c.1612-44), the first inventor of the telescopic sight and micrometer-instruments crucial to the advance of astronomy-was killed in the English Civil War. His name is now known to historians of science around the world, but for some considerable time after his tragic death at the age of 32, it seemed as if his achievements would be consigned to oblivion. Most of his papers were lost in the maelstrom of war and the few that seemed to have survived later disappeared. This is the story of how his work was rescued. Woven into that story is an account of the state of astronomy and optics during Gascoigne’s lifetime, so that the reader can appreciate the significance of his discoveries.  A substantial appendix presents selected extracts from Gascoigne’s correspondence. This includes much new material that has not been previously published and illustrates his efforts to explain the basis of his pioneering techniques to the satisfaction of his contemporaries.   

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David Sellers is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a founder member of the Society for the History of Astronomy. Before retirement he was a Chartered Civil Engineer working in flood risk management. He is the author of The Transit of Venus: the Quest to Find the True Distance of the Sun (Leeds, 2001) and co-author of Vénus Devant le Soleil (Paris, 2003).

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