Titlebook: Chronicling the Golden Age of Astronomy; A History of Visual Neil English Book 2018 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 Historical telesco

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Social Indicators Research Seriese and the natural sciences. Indeed, the other northern Italian cities, including Milan, Florence, Bologna, Venice and Genoa, enjoyed more or less equal status as self-governing city-states?– much like the classical period of ancient Greece, but ruled by a curious assortment of dukes, kings, and prince bishoprics (Fig. 2.1).

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The Legacy of Galileo,e and the natural sciences. Indeed, the other northern Italian cities, including Milan, Florence, Bologna, Venice and Genoa, enjoyed more or less equal status as self-governing city-states?– much like the classical period of ancient Greece, but ruled by a curious assortment of dukes, kings, and prince bishoprics (Fig. 2.1).

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,Thomas Harriot, England’s First Telescopist,an society, doubtless stoked by the invention of the printing press, which had empowered a new generation of scholars. And it was not just in Latin, the traditional language of the educated, but in the lingua franca of the various kingdoms, principalities and nation states of a new and self-confident Europe.

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William F. Denning, a Biographical Sketch,g a bit of a Renaissance owing to the introduction of silver-on-glass mirrors offering decent aperture at prices that suited the budgets of many more amateurs. It was in this renewed spirit of enthusiasm that William F. Denning was to make his mark on the astronomical community (Fig. 18.1).

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The Checkered Career of Simon Marius,aft of Ansbach (Bavaria, south Germany), where?his father served as mayor of the city in 1576. From 1586 to 1601, he studied on and off at the Markgrafschaft’s Lutheran academy at Heilsbronn. And it was during his studies here, beginning around 1594, that he became interested in embarking on a career in astronomy and meteorology (Fig. 3.1).