Talk:Timeline of telescope technology

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[edit] Merger

Merge. It looks like Timeline of telescope technology duplicates Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology. The former does seem to have some very useful expanded information. I propose merging Timeline of telescope technology into Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology. Fountains of Bryn Mawr 17:00, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Oppose - in my view the two articles are not duplicates, especially as the Timeline of t, o ,and o t has very little on telescopes, but a great deal on observatories. I would propose renaming it to Timeline of observatories. It should also be noted that telescopes are not simply astronomical telescopes, but also includes terrestrial telescopes. There should perhaps be a third timeline of astronomical technology to include levels, sextants, octants, transits, astrolabes, the Alphonsine tables etc. There are many ways to slice and dice the information, and I feel a lot would be lost by trying to put it all into a single article - following that course means we would eventually end up with one gargantuan article as a "timeline of technology" - to my mind, teasing out and looking at individual threads in individual articles is instructive. WLD 22:44, 21 November 2006 (UTC)