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Volume 1 / 1989 - Volume 32 / 2011
Special Issue: 400 Years of Astronomical Telescopes / Guest Edited by Bernhard Brandl, Remko Stuik and Jeannette Katgert-Merkelijn
1-18
Review Article
History of mirror casting, figuring, segmentation and active optics
Lothar Noethe
19-34
Telescope mounts and dome structures
Jason Spyromilio
35-48
Original Article
Adaptive optics: a breakthrough in astronomy
Pierre Léna
49-63
The development of astronomical interferometry
Andreas Quirrenbach
65-78
The submillimetre revolution
Ian Robson
79-94
Historical Review
Back to the future: science and technology directions for radio telescopes of the twenty-first century
James M. Cordes
95-109
Realization of X-ray telescopes–from design to performance
Bernd Aschenbach
111-122
Gamma-ray telescopes 400 Years of astronomical telescopes
Neil Gehrels and John K. Cannizzo
123-132
Past and future of ESO
L. Woltjer
133-147
Telescopes in the mirror of scientometrics
Virginia Trimble
149-161
Early history space astronomy Issues of patronage, management and control
Robert W. Smith
163-177
Conceiving and marketing NASA’s Great Observatories
Martin Harwit
179-199
Future technologies for optical and infrared telescopes and instruments
Colin Cunningham
201-210
Perspectives and challenges for future telescopes
Tim de Zeeuw
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