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DR. E. ROSEN has written a remarkably lively little book the conclusion of which is that the term ‘telesocope’ was originally devised by John Demisiani of Cephalonia, and made public by Frederick Cesi at the banquet given in honour of Galileo on April 14, 1611. The circumstances may seem to the man of science of to-day to be too minute to warrant the publication of a book ; but we must welcome here what the history of science so notably lacks, namely, a painstaking and detailed inquiry into a doubtful point concerning which both contemporaries and historians are at variance. The book scarcely needs to justify itself by its subject-matter, for such is the gusto of its author that the reader is infected by that strange passion that keeps sensible men out of bed after midnight to read detective stories.
The Naming of the Telescope
By Edward Rosen. Pp. xvi + 110 + 5 plates. (New York: Henry Sahuman, 1947.) 2.50 dollars.
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TAYLOR, F. The Naming of the Telescope. Nature 164, 46 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164046a0
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