BOOK
Title:
The McDonald telescope: commemorating the dedication and the formal opening of the McDonald Observatory of the University of Texas
Publication:
The Warner & Swasey Co, S.l, 1939]
Notes:
Autographs of participants in the dedication. Includes Harlow Shapley, Joel Stebbins, Helen Sawyer Hogg, Henry Norris Russell, Arthur H. Compton, David Diets, and John J. O'Neill, among twenty-three others.
Extent:
55 p. : front., illus. ; 24 cm.
PAMPHLET
Title:
On triple objectives with complete color correction
Creator:
Hastings, Charles S. (Charles Sheldon), 1849-1932
Publication:
New Haven, Conn, 1879]
Notes:
Caption title. At head of title: From the American journal of science and arts, v.18, Dec., 1879. Includes bibliographical references.
Call #:
520 Pam. v.8, no.12
Extent:
p. [429]-435 ; 22 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
Subaru telescope observations of Deep Impact
Parent:
Science, v.310, no.5746
Publication:
Washington, D.C, 2005.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Call #:
505 SCI2A V.310, NO.5746
Extent:
p. 274-278. : ill. (col.), charts ; 27 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Alvan Clark & Sons: artists in optics
Creator:
Warner, Deborah Jean.
Publication:
Smithsonian Institution Press; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], Washington, 1968.
Notes:
Bibliographical footnotes.
Call #:
507.73 SM6B NO.274
Extent:
120 p. : illus., ports. ; 24 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Descriptive catalogue of telescopes in the Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis der Natuurwetenschappen (National Museum of the History of Science), Leiden (Netherlands)
Publication:
Leyden], 1970.
Extent:
145, [25] p. : illus., ports. ; 19 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
William Herschel and the construction of the heavens
Parent:
American Philosophical Society. Proceedings, v.133, no.3
Creator:
Hoskin, Michael A.
Publication:
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1989.
Call #:
506.73 AM4P V.133, NO.3
Extent:
p.427-433 ; 25 1/2 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
John Collins on Newton's telescope
Parent:
Royal Society of London. Notes and records, v.49, no.1
Creator:
Hall, A. Rupert (Alfred Rupert), 1920-
Publication:
Royal Society of London, London, 1995.
Call #:
506.42 R82N V.49, NO.1
Extent:
p.71-78 : facsim. ; 24 1/2 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
Postscript concerning Leonard and Thomas Digges and the invention of the telescope
Parent:
Endeavour, n.s., v.17, no.4
Publication:
Oxford, 1993.
Call #:
505 EN2 V.17, NO.4
Extent:
p.177-179 : (col.) illus. ; 29 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The cosmic inquirers: modern telescopes and their makers
Creators:
Tucker, Wallace H. | Tucker, Karen
Publication:
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1986.
Notes:
Includes index. Bibliography: p. 211-214.
Extent:
[ii], 221 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
MUSEUM OBJECT
Description:
Dimension:H:7.000in L:45.000in Dimensions of instrument
Tripod: 66 x 35 x 35
Abstract:
View Abstract
The 43" tube is fabricated of cast brass sheet. The focal length is 45" and total length of the tube equals 46 1/2" and it is mounted on a mahogany tripod for use in a standing position. The finder is a 9 3/4" telescope with crossed hairs. The control handle for horizontal adjustment is missing, as is part of that for vertical adjustment. The wooden tripod can be used as altazimuth or parallactic mounting so that the telescope might be used for terrestrial or celestial viewing. The wooden, cylindrical, telescope base on top of the tripod is divided into two halves of an angle of 25 1/2° and pivoted at the center on a tapered axis, vertical to the plane of division. When the two halves form a cylinder, the top surface is horizontal and may be used for terrestrial viewing. By turning the top half 180°, the top surface makes an angle of 51° with the horizontal (the latitude of London). These two positions are indicated on the cylindrical bodies by two lines, 180° apart. The lines of marked by two thin ivory strips inlaid in the wood. Marked, "Dollond, London." (Robert P. Multhauf, "Catalogue of Instruments and Models," 1961).
BOOK
Title:
Novae coelestivm, terrestrivmque rervm observationes: et fortasse hactenus non uulgatae
Creator:
Fontana, Francesco, 1602-1656
Publication:
Superiorum permissu, apud Gaffarum, Neapoli, 1646.
Notes:
Includes index. Engraved t.p.
Extent:
[6], 151, [7] p. : ill., port. ; 22 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
Caroline Herschel's comet sweepers
Parent:
Journal for the history of astronomy, v.12, pt.1, no.33
Creators:
Hoskin, Michael A. | Warner, Brian
Publication:
Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks], 1981.
Call #:
520.905 J82 V.12, PT.1, NO.33
Extent:
p.[25]-34 : illus. ; 23 1/2 cm.
PAMPHLET
Title:
A boy who loved the stars: A November birthday story; a biographical sketch of John Alfred Brashear
Creator:
Toal, Josephine E.
Publication:
Pittsburgh, Pa, 192-?]
Notes:
Note: The foregoing sketch appeared in the November issue of Normal Instructor and Primary Plan magazine. Permission has been granted to reprint for the ... use of the Pittsburgh public schools.
Call #:
920 Pam. v.36, no.2
Extent:
[8] p. : ill., port. ; 18 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
Galileo's telescopic observations of Venus and Mars
Parent:
British journal for the philosophy of science, v.36, no.2
Publication:
Aberdeen, 1985.
Call #:
501.6 B77J V.36, NO.2
Extent:
p.175-184 ; 23 1/2 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
A new eye opens on the cosmos
Parent:
Scientific American, v.280, no.4
Publication:
New York, 1999.
Call #:
505 Sci23, v.280, no.4
Extent:
p. 104-111. : ill. (colored), ports. (colored) ; 28 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The Life of John Dollond, F.R.S., inventor of the achromatic telescope: With a copious Appendix of all the papers referred to
Creators:
Dollond, John, 1706-1761 | Dollond, Peter, 1730-1820 | Kelly, John, 1750-1809
Publication:
W. M. Thiselton, London, 1808.
Notes:
Appendix containing letters and papers of John and Peter Dollond: p.[17]-123.
Extent:
1 l., 123 p. : 2 ports. (incl. front.) illus. ; 26 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
A. G. Ingalls, R. W. Porter and the amateur telescope making movement
Creator:
Williams, Thomas R.
Publication:
Pasadena, 1987.
Extent:
8, [2] p. ; 28 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Some account of the discovery made by the late Mr. John Dollond, F.R.S. which led to the grand improvement of refracting telescopes: ...to correct some misrepresentations, in foreign publications, of that discovery, with an attempt to account for the mistake in an experiment made by Sir Isaac Newton ; on which experiment the improvement of the refracting telescope entirely depended
Creator:
Dollond, Peter, 1730-1820
Publication:
Printed for J. Johnson, London, 1789.
Call #:
PAM. V.1087, NO.6
Extent:
iv, 15 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
MUSEUM OBJECT
Description:
Dimension:H:33.000in W:13.000in L:34.500in Incl. tripod
Abstract:
View Abstract
This telescope consists of a 35" brass tube with a 2.95" aperture, and focal length of approximately 25". There is an integral folding brass stand, for use on a table. There are two terrestrial and four astronomical eyepieces, all of the Huygens type, the use of which is described in an instruction sheet affixed to the box. The small intermediate lens, a cemented doublet of 1.4" characteristic of this type of telescope, is located within the tube. The instrument is Inscribed: "Dialytical telescope for the use of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia. Invented 1832 and made by S. Plösel in Vienna the 1 of August 1834." (Robert P. Multhauf, "Catalogue of Instruments and Models," 1961).
MUSEUM OBJECT
Description:
Dimension:L:20.000in Dia:2.438in Extended Length: 35.5 inches
Abstract:
View Abstract
Brass construction, mahogany covered, one telescoping section. 1 5/8" aperture. Length 20" closed, 35 1/2" extended. Marked "Blunt, Cornhill, London." (Robert P. Multhauf, "Catalogue of Instruments and Models," 1961).
