Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Foreword VII
4. Introduction IX
5. CHAPTER 1 The Critical Issue 1
6. CHAPTER 2 The Technology of Grinding Crystals in Antiquity and the Middle Ages 4
7. CHAPTER 3 The Reading Stones (lapides ad legendum) 10
8. CHAPTER 4 The First Dioptrical Vision Aids 15
9. CHAPTER 5 Glass Techniques in the Middle Ages and the Invention of Spectacles 29
10. CHAPTER 6 The Development of Spectacles in the Later Middle Ages and in the Renaissance 56
11. CHAPTER 7 Evolution of the Modern Lens-Grinding Technique in the Sixteenth Century 70
12. CHAPTER 8 Written Sources of the Sixteenth Century Concerning the Combination of Two Spectacle Glasses 85
13. CHAPTER 9 The Events in Holland in the Autumn of 1608 90
14. CHAPTER 10 The Breakthrough 93
15. CHAPTER 11 Who Is the Inventor of the Telescope? 98
16. CHAPTER 12 Summary 100
17. Acknowledgments 105
18. Notes 107
19. Further Reading 111
20. About the Author 115