The great Melbourne telescope / Richard Gillespie.

ISBN:

9781921833311

Title:

Author:

Gillespie, R. (Richard)

Personal Author:

Gillespie, R. (Richard)

Publication Information:

Melbourne : Museum Victoria, 2011.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Contents:

Foreword; CHAPTER ONE The Southern Telescope; CHAPTER TWO This Noble Object; CHAPTER THREE Engineering Masterpiece; CHAPTER FOUR Controversy; CHAPTER FIVE The Telescope at Work; CHAPTER SIX The Telescope in the City; CHAPTER SEVEN Rebirth; TELESCOPE TYPES; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Notes; Index.

Corporate Subject:

Melbourne Observatory -- History.

Subject Term:

Telescopes -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History.

Astronomers -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History.

Astronomy -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History.

Added Corporate Author:

Museum Victoria.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2011

Publication Information:

Melbourne : Museum Victoria, 2011.

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Summary

Erected at Melbourne Observatory in 1869, the telescope was the second largest in the world, designed to explore the nature of the nebulae in the southern skies. Richard Gillespie, head of the History and Technology department at the Melbourne museum has written an entertaining account of the telescopeOCOs extraordinary history and tells the story through an amazing cast of characters whose lives intersected with the telescope."