MAKING & ENJOYING TELESCOPES - Hardcover

Miller, Robert; Wilson, Kenneth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806912774 ISBN 13: 9780806912776

Publisher: Sterling, 1995

Synopsis

This instruction book shows how to make home-made telescopes. It has six different sizes and styles, from a small hand-held device to a large mounted telescope. All are made with readily-available, inexpensive materials, and will provide information on stars, comets, eclipses and constellations, and other phenomena. The authors claim that these telescopes are far better than the instruments used in Galileo's or Newton's time. The guide is free of cumbersome technical jargon, and should be accessible to anyone interested in understanding the skies. The book also traces the development of the telescope, and teaches the principles and variations of design, basic construction techniques and materials. It shows how to repair and adapt older telescopes and how to take photographs through a telescope.

About this title

About the Author

Ian Wilson was born in London in 1941 and educated at Emanuel School, Wandsworth, and Magdalene College, Oxford, where he graduated in History in 1963. His previous books include The Turin Shroud, which became a worldwide bestseller when published in 1978 and Jesus: The Evidence (1984), a companion to the major three part TV series of the same name and another bestseller. The Blood and the Shroud was published in 1998. His biography of Shakespeare, Shakespeare: The Evidence was published in 1993 and The Bible is History in 1999. All of his books have attracted critical acclaim.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sterling
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806912774
• ISBN 13: 9780806912776
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160