Peering into the past: What early telescopes reveal about glass technology and scientific evolution
What do you see when you look at a telescope?
A tool that helped birth the field of science? The first device to extend human senses? An instrument that changed the course of human history? An object intimately linked to musings about our place in the universe?
Marvin Bolt, the first-ever Curator of Science and Technology of the Corning Museum of Glass, sees all of those things and much more.