Telescope History Timeline Bibliography

Item Name/Author URL Date

Bell, David The Baseline Telescope Optics January, 2005

http://spectroscopyonline.findanalytichem.com/spectroscopy/data/articlecolumn/spectroscopy/032

Chandra X-Ray Observatory - Telescope System http://chandra.harvard.edu/about/telescope_system.html 9/26/2008

Gills, John F. From James Gregory to John Gregory http://www.weasner.com/etx/guests/mak/MAKSTO.HTM 1998

Greene, Nick The Basics of Telescopes http://space.about.com/cs/telescopes/a/scopebasics.htm

History of the Telescope - Binocular http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelescope.htm

How Telescopes Work www.howstuffworks.com/telescope1.htm

Hubble Space Telescope http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html 3/14/2011

Refracting & Reflecting Telescopes http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112188/refracting_and_reflecting_telescopes.htm

Space Infrared Telescope Facility www.aerospaceguide.net/telescope/sirtf.html

Telescope History 9/12/2003

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/telescope_feature_912.html
Thompson, Andrea Spitzer Telescope Warms Up to its New
Mission http://www.space.com/6879-spitzer-telescope-warms-mission.html 6/23/2009
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Item Name/Author URL Date

Who actually invented the astronomical telescope? 8/6/2008

http://www.astronomy2009.org/static/archives/presentations/pdf/educational_whoinvented.pdf

Zeiss, Carl Brief History of the Reflecting Telescope 2005

http://www.zeiss.com/C125716F004E0776/0/C523C9596F99D4FEC125719C002A18F0/$File/innovati