TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zirker,Jack B.
TI  - An acre of glass: a history and forecast of the telescope 
SN  - 0801882346 (acidfree paper)
AV  - QB88 .Z57 2005
U1  - 681/.4123 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Telescopes
KW  - History
N1  - Includes index; The first three hundred years -- The age of Hale -- New windows on the universe -- The rise of the great centers -- The Hubble Space Telescope -- A mirror in many pieces -- Spinning glass -- A profusion of telescopes -- Beating the seeing -- The astronomer's microscope -- Toward the ever-receding horizon -- The future in space
ER  -