Written to complement How to Use a Computerized Telescope, this book will also appeal to astronomers with more traditional equipment.

Throughout, the book is richly illustrated with over 270 full-color images, including those of rare and unusual artifacts from all over the world kept in the world-renowned collection at the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago ...

Not until the nineteenth century would three men, armed with the best telescopes of their age, race to conquer this astronomical Everest. Parallax tells the fast-moving story of their contest, which ended in a dead heat.

Presents a history of astronomical instruments such as space telescopes and probes as well as related scientific concepts and brief biographies of important individuals.

Amateur astronomers of any level will find this book to be of immense value to research. Professional astronomers should use this book as a source of information on areas unfamiliar to them.

The story encompasses astronomy, navigation and clockmaking.

An anecdotal history of the development of the optical telescope and the people involved, culminating in the author's predictions for future developments.

The story of the discovery and study of what came to be known as the, "Antikythera mechanism".