Table of contents for An acre of glass : a history and forecast of the telescope / J.B. Zirker.

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. The first 300 years
2. The Age of Hale
3. New windows on the universe
4. The rise of the great centers
5. The Hubble Space Telescope
6. A mirror in many pieces: the Keck Telescope
7. Spinning glass
8. A profusion of telescopes
9. Beating the seeing
10. The astronomer's microscope
11. Toward the ever-receding horizon
12. The future in space
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Index

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Telescopes -- History.