Water-filled telescopes
History and Philosophy of Physics
2014-01-23 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Popular Physics
Abstract
In this short note we discuss the case of the thought experiments on water-filled telescopes and their realizations during 18th and 19th century. The story of those instruments shows that the scientific progress occurs in a curious way, since there was no stringent reason for the construction of a water-filled telescope.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1401.5585,
title = {Water-filled telescopes},
author = {E. Antonello},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.5585},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
7 pages; to appear in the proceedings of the Conference for the tercentenary of the birth R.G. Boscovich, Pavia, Italy, Sept. 2011