Seventeenth Century Astronomer
by
David Sellers
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
William Gascoigne (c.1612-44) was the inventor of the telescopic sight and micrometer (instruments crucial to the advance of astronomy). His name is now known to historians of science around the world. For some considerable time after his tragic death at the age of 32 in the English Civil War, however,...