Caltech Astronomy - History - The telescopes at Mt. Wilson and Palomar.
Churches as Scientific Instruments - Solar observatories built into 17th and 18th century cathedrals.
Important Astronomers, their Instruments and Discoveries - From the merket to the reflecting telescope in three pages.
Virtual Museum of Measuring Engines - The history of modern astronomical measurement, emphasis on instruments.
The 28-inch Photo-visual Refractor - Exhibition from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, that explains the history of this telescope via words and archive photographs.
Antique Telescopes - An overview with photographs of many lesser known telescopes typical of their time.
Adler Planetarium - Historical Collections - Collection of instruments, past exhibitions, history department information.
Sir Martin Ryle - Nobel Lecture - Radio telescopes of large resolving power.
Smithsonian Magazine - Stars in Their Eyes - The exquisite telescopes crafted by Alvan Clark and his sons helped make the last half of the 19th century a golden age of astronomy.
|