TY  - BOOK
AU  - 
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - In Search of William Gascoigne: Seventeenth Century Astronomer 
T2  - Astrophysics and Space Science Library,
SN  - 9781461440970
AV  - QB1-991 
U1  - 520 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Physics
KW  - Science
KW  - History
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
KW  - History of Science
KW  - Optics and Electrodynamics
N1  - Part 1: The Discovery of William Gascoigne -- Introduction -- The Gascoignes of Thorp-On-The-Hill -- The Discovery of William Gascoigne -- A Light of the First Magnitude -- Derham and de la Hire -- Bevis and de la Hire -- In His Own Hand -- Part 2: Gascoignes World -- The Religious World of William Gascoigne -- The Optical World of William Gascoigne -- The Astronomical World of William Gascoigne -- Part 3: Digging Further -- The Flamsteed Transcriptions -- Bodleian Transcriptions -- British Library MSS and Other Transcriptions -- The Civil War and After -- The Road to Civil War -- After Marston Moor -- The Legacy of William Gascoigne; ZDB-2-PHA
N2  - William Gascoigne (c.1612-44), the first inventor of the telescopic sight and micrometerinstruments crucial to the advance of astronomywas 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 Gascoignes 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4097-0
ER  -