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Subject: Conference - 400 Years of Astronomical Telescopes - A Review of
History, Science and Technology
This month is the 400th anniversary of Hans Lipperhey's application for
a patent on the telescope. To mark this event, there is an exciting
conference on "400 Years of Astronomical Telescopes - A Review of
History, Science and Technology" taking place at ESTEC in the
Netherlands on 29th Sept to the 2nd Oct. The meeting will review 400
years of developments in optical and non-optical telescopes,
world-famous observatories, key technologies and components, the
interplay of scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs,
political and sociological aspects, and provide a daring outlook into
the future.
The meeting will be interesting to all those who want to know how we
have arrived at the current 'golden age of astronomy', what lessons we
can learn from that journey, and how this can help us plan for the
future.
To make the wide field of 400 years of telescope history and technology
interesting to what is expected to be a rather mixed audience, the
program consists exclusively of invited review talks given leaders in
each field. The speakers include Albert Van Helden, George Rieke,
Riccardo Giacconi, Reinhard Genzel, Lo Woltjer, Roger Angel, Malcolm
Longair, Virginia Trimble, Bob O'Dell, Martin Harwit & Tim de Zeeuw. The
presentations are to be published by Springer in what we expect will be
an attractive and coherent book. Poster papers are encouraged, and will
also be considered for publication in the book.
For more details see:
http://www.400yearsoftelescopes.org/
<http://www.400yearsoftelescopes.org/>
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