Acknowledgements.-Preface.-Chapter 1: Thomas Harriot, England's First Telescopist.-Chapter 2: The Legacy of Galileo.-Chapter 3: The Checkered Career of Simon Marius.-Chapter 4: The Era of Long Telescopes.-Chapter 5: Workers of Speculum.-Chapter 6: Charles Messier, the Ferret of Comets.-Chapter 7: Thomas Jefferson and His Telescopic Forays.-Chapter 8: The Herschel Legacy.-Chapter 9: Thinking Big
The Pioneers of Parsonstown.-Chapter 10: The Astronomical Adventures of William Lassell.-Chapter 11: Friedrich W. Bessel: The Man Who Dared to Measure.-Chapter 12: W. H. Smyth: The Admirable Admiral.-Chapter 13: The Stellar Contributions of Wilhelm von Struve.-Chapter 14: The Eagle-Eyed Reverend William Rutter Dawes.-Chapter 15: The Telescopes of the Reverend Thomas William Webb.-Chapter 16: The Astronomical Adventures of Artistic Nathaniel Everett Green.-Chapter 17: Edward Emerson Barnard, the Early Years.-Chapter 18: William F. Denning, a Biographical Sketch.-Chapter 19: A Modern Commentary on W. F. Denning's Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings (1891).-Chapter 20: The Astronomical Legacy of Asaph Hall.-Chapter 21: The Life and Work of Charles Grover (1842-1921).-Chapter 22: Angelo Secchi, Father of Modern Astrophysics.-Chapter 23: John Birmingham, T. H. E. C Espin and the Search for Red Stars.-Chapter 24: A Historic Clark Telescope Receives a New Lease on Life.-Chapter 25: A Short Commentary on Percival Lowell's 'Mars as the Abode of Life'.-Chapter 26: The Great Meudon Refractor.-Chapter 27: A Short Commentary on R.G Aitken's The Binary Stars.-Chapter 28: S. W. Burnham
A Life Behind the Eyepiece.-Chapter 29: Voyage to the Planets: The Astronomical Forays of Arthur Stanley Williams (1861-1938).-Chapter 30: Explorer of the Planets: The Contributions of the Reverend T. E. R. Philips.-Chapter 31: Highlights from the Life of Leslie C. Peltier.-Chapter 32: Clyde W. Tombaugh; Discoverer of Pluto.-Chapter 33: A Short Commentary on Walter Scott Houston's 'Deep Sky Wonders'.-Chapter 34: A Short Commentary on David H. Levy's The Quest for Comets.-Chapter 35: George Alcock and the Historic Ross Refractor.-Chapter 36: Whatever Happened to Robert Burnham Junior?.-Chapter 37: The Impact of Mount Wilson's 60-inch Reflector.-Chapter 38: Seeing Saturnian SpotsChapter 39: John Dobson and His Revolution.-Chapter 40: The Telescopes of Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012).-Chapter 41: A Gift of a Telescope: The Japan 400 Project.-Appendix: Achievements of the Classical Refractor
A Timeline.-Index.