1. 400 Years of Astronomical Telescopes

   • Peter von Ballmoos
   • Bernhard Brandl
   • Ramon Khanna

   Editorial Open access 04 July 2009 Pages: 1 - 2

2. The beginnings, from Lipperhey to Huygens and Cassini

   • Albert Van Helden

   Review Article Open access 08 April 2009 Pages: 3 - 16

   

3. Galileo’s telescope: history, scientific analysis, and replicated observations

   • Giorgio Strano

   Original Article 24 January 2009 Pages: 17 - 31

   

4. The Era of Newton, Herschel and Lord Rosse

   • Jim Bennett

   Historical Review 22 April 2009 Pages: 33 - 42

   

5. The great nineteenth century refractors

   • James Lequeux

   Original Article 13 March 2009 Pages: 43 - 61

   

6. In the grip of the big telescope age

   • David H. DeVorkin

   Historical Review 05 February 2009 Pages: 63 - 77

   

7. “Beautiful and cantankerous instruments”: telescopes, technology, and astronomy’s changing practice

   • W. Patrick McCray

   Original Article 03 February 2009 Pages: 79 - 89

8. Astronomical spectroscopy in the last four decades: survival of the fittest

   • Guy J. Monnet

   Review Article 20 March 2009 Pages: 91 - 106

   

9. The history of radio telescopes, 1945–1990

   • Woodruff T. Sullivan III

   Original Article 05 February 2009 Pages: 107 - 124

   

10. History of infrared telescopes and astronomy

    • G. H. Rieke

    Review Article 20 February 2009 Pages: 125 - 141

11. History of X-ray telescopes and astronomy

    • Riccardo Giacconi

    Original Article 24 January 2009 Pages: 143 - 156

    

12. History of gamma-ray telescopes and astronomy

    • Klaus Pinkau

    Original Article Open access 17 March 2009 Pages: 157 - 171

    

13. Imaging very high energy gamma-ray telescopes

    • Heinrich J. Völk
    • Konrad Bernlöhr

    Original Article Open access 10 March 2009 Pages: 173 - 191

    

14. History of solar telescopes

    • Oskar von der Lühe

    Review Article 27 June 2009 Pages: 193 - 207

    

15. History of neutrino telescope/astronomy

    • Atsuto Suzuki
    • Masatoshi Koshiba

    Review Article 18 April 2009 Pages: 209 - 224

    

16. 400 years of astrometry: from Tycho Brahe to Hipparcos

    • Erik Høg

    Review Article 24 March 2009 Pages: 225 - 240

    

17. History of astronomical discoveries

    • Malcolm Longair

    Review Article 05 February 2009 Pages: 241 - 259

    

18. Creation of the Hubble Space Telescope

    • C. R. O’Dell

    Original Article 16 January 2009 Pages: 261 - 272