Topics: telescopes, observatories, instruments, optics, astronomy

Todd, David P. The Sun. Science 2 (Jul. 12, 1895) 29-39. (#28)

Tolansky, S. & W K Donaldson. The Reflectivity of Speculum Metal. Journal of Scientific Instruments 24:9 (Sept. 1947) 248-249. (evaporated coatings of speculum)

Tolles, Frederick B. Philadelphia's First Scientist: James Logan. Isis 47:1 (March 1956) 20-30.

Tolles, Robert B. Method of applying the binocular principle to the eye-piece of a Microscope or Telescope. American Journal of Science 39 (1865) 212-215.

(Tombaugh) Beebe, Reta & Herbert. Obituary: Clyde William Tombaugh, 1906-1997. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 29:4 (1997) 1493-1494.

(Tombaugh) Osterbrock, Donald E. Tombaugh, Clyde. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-02623.html Nov 25 2003.

Toomer, G.J. Book review. The Exhaustive Treatise on Shadows. Abu al-Rayhan Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Biruni; E. S. Kennedy. Isis 69:4 (Dec. 1978) 619-622.

Topper, David. Galileo, Sunspots, and the Motions of the Earth: Redux. Isis 90:4 (Dec. 1999) 757-767.

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Tousey, Richard. Solar spectroscopy from Rowland to SOT. Vistas in Astronomy 29:2 (1986) 175-199.

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Townes, Charles H. A Physicist Courts Astronomy. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 35 (1997) 13-44.

Townley, Sidney. The Total Solar Eclipse of June 8, 1918. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 30 (1918) 301-303.

Trimble, Virginia. Astrophysics in 1991. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 104 (Jan. 1992) 1-14.

Trimble, Virginia. Astrophysics in 1992. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 105 (Jan. 1993) 1-21. (#683)

Trimble, Virginia & Peter J.T. Leonard. Astrophysics in 1993. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 106 (Jan. 1994) 1-24. (#695)

Trimble, Virginia & Peter J.T. Leonard. Astrophysics in 1994. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 107 (Jan. 1995) 1-21. (#707)

Trimble, Virginia & Peter J.T. Leonard. Astrophysics in 1995. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 108 (Jan. 1996) 8-34.

Trimble, Virginia & Lucy Ann McFadden. Astrophysics in 1996. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 109 (Feb. 1997) 78-113.

Trimble, Virginia & Lucy Ann McFadden. Astrophysics in 1997. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 110 (March 1998) 223-267.

Trimble, Virginia & Marcus Aschwanden. Astrophysics in 1998. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 111 (April 1999) 385-437.

Trimble, Virginia & Marcus Aschwanden. Astrophysics in 1999. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 112 (April 2000) 434-503.

Trimble, Virginia & Marcus Aschwanden. Astrophysics in 2000. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 113 (Sept. 2001) 1025-1114.

Trimble, Virginia & Marcus Aschwanden. Astrophysics in 2001. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 114 (May 2002) 475-528.

Trimble, Virginia & Marcus Aschwanden. Astrophysics in 2002. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 115 (May 2003) 514-591.

Trimble, Virginia & Markus Aschwanden. Astrophysics in 2003. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 116 (March 2004) 187–265.

Trimble, Virginia & H. Sciatti. Astrophysics in 2049. The Observatory 120 (Feb. 2000) 7p-10p.

Trimble, Virginia. Papers and Citations Resulting from Data Collected at Large, American Optical Telescopes. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 107 (Oct. 1995) 977-980.

Trimble, Virginia. Productivity and Impact of Large Optical Telescopes. Scientometrics 36 (1996) 237-246.

Trimble, Virginia. Sinclair Smith (1899-1938). pp411-413. Modern Cosmology in Retrospect. B. Bertotti, R. Balbinot, & S. Bergia, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Trimble, Virginia. Small Is As Small Does. pp1-22. Oswalt, Terry, ed. The Future of Small Telescopes in the Next Millenium. Vol. 2, The Telescopes We Use. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003.

Trimble, Virginia. The Stained and Spotty Heavens; Astrophysics Faces the Millennium II. Beamline, Spring 2000. (.pdf)

Trouvelot, L. Astronomical Engravings of the Moon, Planets, etc. Prepared at The Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. Cambridge: 1876. (35 plates; pl. 11 & 19 - spectroscope; postscript conversions of remainder are very poor quality)

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A True relation of strange and wonderful sights seen in the air, at the time the moon was in the eclipse, January 1, 1655/6. London, 1656.

(Trumpler) Weaver, Harold F. Robert Julius Trumpler, October 2, 1886 - September 10, 1956. Biographical Memoirs National Academy of Sciences, vol. 78, 2000. http://stills.nap.edu/html/biomems/rtrumpler.html (Nov. 27, 2003)

Tscherning, M.H.E. The development of the science of physiological optics in the nineteenth century. Transactions of the Optical Society 9 (1907-1908) 1-21. (incl. biog. T. Young)

Tsurutani, B. T., W. D. Gonzalez, G. S. Lakhina, & S. Alex. The extreme magnetic storm of 1-2 September 1859. Journal of Geophysical Research 108 (2003) 1.1-1.8.

Tucker, Leonard. President Thomas Clap of Yale College: Another "Founding Father" of American Science. Isis 52:1 (March 1961) 55-77. (astronomy, 1744, built orrery)

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Tucker, R.H. Meridian Circle Observations of 310 Standard Stars. pp1-5, Description of the Instrument. Publications of the Lick Observatory. Vol. 4, 1900. (Clark / Repsold, duplicate at Strasburg.)

(Tucker) Sanford, Roscoe. Richard Hawley Tucker, 1859-1952. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 65 (Feb. 1953) 16-18.

Tumanyan, Benik E. On the History of Armenian Astronomy. Vistas in Astronomy 9 (1967) 253-259.

Tupman, G.L. Observations of the solar prominences. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 33 (Dec. 1872) 105-115. (instructions 105-107; list of observations 108-115)

Tupman, G.L. On the cross reticule. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 48 (Jan. 1888) 96-103.

Tupman, G.L. On the Photographs of the Transit of Venus. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 38 (1878) 508-513.

Turner, A.J. The Accomplishment of Many Years: Three Notes towards a History of the Sand-glass. Annals of Science 39:2 (March 1982) 161-172.

Turner, A.J. The invention of the telescope (Book Review). Annals of Science 36:4 (July 1979) 418-419.

Turner, A.J. The Making of an Instrument Catalogue; Essay Review. Annals of Science 39:4 (July 1982) 407-420.

Turner, Anthony. Mathematical Instrument Making in Early Modern Paris. pp63-96. Luxury Trades and Consumerism in Ancien Regime Paris. ed. Robert Fox & Anthony Turner. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. (Chorez. binocular.)

Turner, A.J. Portraits of William Herschel. Vistas in Astronomy 32:1 (1988) 65-94.

Turner, G.L'E. Book review. Eyes Right. Annals of Science 44:1 (Jan. 1987) 92-93.

Turner, G. L'E. The London trade in scientific instrument-making in the 18th century. Vistas in Astronomy 20:1 (1976) 173-176.

Turner, H. H. For the 500th number of The Observatory The Observatory 39 (May 1916) 224-226.

Turner, H. H. Mirrors, long-focus, note on the use of, for eclipse work Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 64 (Jan. 1904) 189-192.

Turner, H.H. On mechanically compensating the rotation of the field of a Siderostat. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 61 (1901) 122-129.

Turner, H.H. On some Possible Improvements in Meridian & Extra-Meridian Observing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 54 (1894) 412-415. (transit)

Turner, H.H. Paradoxers. The Observatory 13 (Nov. 1890) 341-344.

Turner, H.H. Some Notes on the Use and Adjustment of the Coelostat. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 56 (1896) 408-423.

(Turner) Herbert Hall Turner. Obituary. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 91:4 (Feb. 1931) 321-334.

Tutton, A.E. An Instrument for Grinding Section-Plates and Prisms of Crystals of Artificial Preparations Accurately in the Desired Directions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 185 (1894) 887-912.

Tutton, A.E. An Instrument of Precision for Producing Monochromatic Light of any Desired Wave-Length, and Its Use in the Investigation of the Optical Properties of Crystals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 185 (1894) 913-941.

Twarog, B.A., et al. The UltraLightweight Technology for Research in Astronomy (ULTRA) Project. (Poster, AAS 205th Meeting, Jan. 2005) (U. Kansas, SDSU, Dartmouth, Composite Mirror Applications; graphite fiber composites for optical astronomy; 0.4m prototype OTA & mirrors, 12 kg)

(Twining) Rothenberg, Marc. Twining, Alexander Catlin. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-01698.html Nov 25 2003.

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Twyman, F. An interferometer for testing camera lenses. Transactions of the Optical Society 22:4 (April 1921) 174-193.

Twyman, F. Optical glass and simple optical elements. The Third Optical Convention. Journal of Scientific Instruments 3:8 (May 1926) 256-257. (Chance. Cooke. Parsons Optical Glass, 41 inch blank.)

Twyman, F. A photometric eyepiece for visual quantitative spectrum analysis. Transactions of the Optical Society 33:4 (1931-1932) 176-181.

Twyman, F. The Training of Craftsmen for the Optical Instrument Industry. Journal of Scientific Instruments 21:6 (June 1944) 93-97.

Twyman, F. The Vitality of the British Optical Industry. Journal of Scientific Instruments 2:12 (September 1925) 369-380. (astronomical; glass; grinding & polishing) 380-1, T.Y. Baker, Optical Instruments in the Fighting Services.

Twysden, John. The use of the general planisphere, called the analemma, in the resolution of some of the chief and most useful problems of astronomy. London: Printed by J. Gain, for Walter Hayes, mathematical-instrument maker, and are to be sold at his house, 1685. J.T.: 1607-1688.

Tyndall, John. Faraday, Michael (1791–1867). Dictonary of National Biography. 1888. (Oxford University Press 2004).

Uhink, W. Eine historische Bemerkung ueber das Fernrohr mit Fokussierlinse. Zeitschrift fuer Instrumentenkunde 51 (Feb. 1931) 91-93.

Umland, Henning. A Short Guide to Celestial Navigation. http://home.t-online.de/home/h.umland/page2.htm 1997-2004

Underwood, R. S. Two Telescopes and the New Universe. Scientific Monthly 67:1 (July 1948) 5-16.

Urban, John. Imaging in Obstructed and Unobstructed Telescopes. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Convention of the Western Amateur Astronomers, 1966.

U.S. Defense Supply Agency. Military Standardization Handbook: Optical Design: MIL-HDBK-141, Oct. 5, 1962 .pdf, 90 megs (2003) http://www.azmackes.net/astronomy/mil_hdbk_141/

(USNO) Astronomical Magnetic and Meteorological Observations made during the year 1890 at the U.S. Naval Observatory. Washington: G.P.O., 1895. (Table of contents. pp5-13, 26 inch equatorial, transit circle, 9.6 inch equatorial, new observatory.)

Usselman, Melvyn C. William Wollaston, John Johnson and Colombian Alluvial Platina: a Study in Restricted Industrial Enterprise. Annals of Science 37:3 (May 1980) 253-268.

(USNO) Astronomical Magnetic & Meteorological Observations made during the year 1890 at the U.S. Naval Observatory. Washington: G.P.O., 1895. (pp5-13, 26 inch equatorial, transit circle, 9.6 inch equatorial, new observatory)

Uzes, Francois D. 'Bud'. Surveying in California. American Surveyor 2:2 (March/April 2005).

Valleli, Paul. Restoration of a Classical Brass Telescope: Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston and Antique Telescope Society 'Re-Discovers' and Restores MIT's 5" Alvan Clark. Poster paper, 13th Meeting of the Antique Telescope Society, 23 October, 2004.

Vallvey, Luis F.C. Export and Smuggling of Spanish Platina in the Eighteenth Century. Annals of Science 53:5 (Sept. 1996) 467-487. (Rochon n. 470ff)

(van de Kamp) Lippincott, Sarah Lee. Obituary: Peter van de Kamp, 1901-1995. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 27:4 (1995) 1483-1484.

Van Etten, Henry. Mathematicall Recreations. Or a Collection of many Problems extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers as secrets and experiments. Whereunto is added, the description and use of the double horizontal dyal and the general horological ring, invented and written by William Oughtred. London : Printed for William Leake and John Leake ..., 1674. gibbous (convex) lens
Van Helden, Albert. The Accademia del Cimento and Saturn's Ring. Physis 15 (1973) 237-59.

Van Helden, Albert. Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, 31 October-3 November 1985. Isis 77:2 (June 1986) 302-305.

Van Helden, Albert. 'Annulo Cingitur': The Solution to the Problem of Saturn. Journal for the History of Astronomy 5 (1974) 155-74.

Van Helden, Albert. The Birth of the Modern Scientific Instrument, 1550-1700. pp49-84. The Uses of Science in the Age of Newton. ed. J. G. Burke. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

Van Helden, Albert. Book review: Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe; by Stephen C. McCluskey. The American Historical Review 104:5 (Dec. 1999) 1725-1727.

Van Helden, Albert. Book review: The Cosmic Inquirers: Modern Telescopes and Their Makers, by Wallace Tucker & Karen Tucker. Isis 77:4 (Dec. 1986) 685-686.

Van Helden, Albert. Book review: Huygens et la France; C.N.R.S. Paris, ed. (1979 symposim) Isis 74:2 (June 1983) 288. (Review part 1 symposium: Finocchiaro, Isis 73 (1982) 137-138)

Van Helden, Albert. Book review: In the Presence of the Creator: Isaac Newton and His Times; by Gale Christianson. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 16:3 (Winter 1986) 508-510.

Van Helden, Albert. Book review: Jean Picard et les debuts de l'astronomie de precision au XVIIe siecle; Guy Picolet, ed. Isis 81:3 (Sept. 1990) 572-573.

Van Helden, Albert. Book review: Joseph von Fraunhofer: Handwerker, Forscher, Akademiemitglied, 1787-1826; by Gunter D. Roth. Isis 70:3 (Sept. 1979) 478.

Van Helden, Albert. Book review: Kepler; by Max Caspar. Isis 87:1 (March 1996) 165-166.

Van Helden, Albert. Book review: Lowell and Mars, by William Hoyt. Annals of Science 34:3 (May 1977) 326-327.

Van Helden, Albert. Book review: Mapping of the Moon: Past and Present, by Zdenek Kopal & Robert W. Carder. Isis 67 2 (June 1976) 297-298.

Van Helden, Albert. Book review: Martinus Van Marum, Life and Work, Volume VI; E. Lefebvre & J. G. De Bruijn, ed.. Isis 69:1 (March 1978) 132-133.

Van Helden, Albert. Book review: The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren, by J.A. Bennett. Isis 75:2 (June 1984) 398-399.

Van Helden, Albert. Book review: On the Distances between Sun, Moon, and Earth according to Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Reinhold; by Janice Adrienne Henderson. Isis 83:3 (Sept. 1992) 488.

Van Helden, Albert. Book review: Science and History: Studies in Honor of Edward Rosen; Erna Hilfstein; Pawel Czartoryski; Frank D. Grande, ed. Isis 71:2 (June 1980) 303-304.

Van Helden, Albert. Book review: Welzijn, wijsbegeerte, en wetenschap; C. de Pater, ed. (Willem Jacob's Gravesande) Isis 82:1 (March 1991) 144-145.

Van Helden, Albert. Christiaan Huygens and Saturn. pp18-23. Karen Fletcher & Andre Bouwman, ed. Christiaan Huygens: Facets of a Genius. ESA BR-211. Noordwijk: ESA, 2004. 31pp.

Van Helden, Albert. Commentary. Galileo Galilei, Sidereus Nuncius. Octavo Edition CD. Oakland, Calif.: Octavo, n.d. (.pdf)

Van Helden, Albert. The Dimensions of the Discarded Image. pp65-75. Mapping the Cosmos. ed. J. Chance and R. O. Wells, Jr. Rice University Press, 1985.

Van Helden, Albert. Eloge: Salomon Bochner, 20 August 1899-2 May 1982. Isis 74:4 (Dec. 1983) 565.

Van Helden, Albert. Galileo and Scheiner on Sunspots: A Case Study in the Visual Language of Astronomy. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 140 (1996) 357-95.

Van Helden, Albert. The Galileo Project. http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/ 1996.

Van Helden, Albert. Halley and the Dimensions of the Solar System. pp143-56. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Longer View of Newton and Halley. ed. N. J. W. Thrower. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Van Helden, Albert. & Thomas Hankins. Instruments in the History of Science. pp9-29, Scientific Instruments, T.L. Hankins & A. Van Helden, ed. Osiris 9 (1994) 9-29.

Van Helden, Albert. Introduction. pp1-7. Stamhuis, Ida H.; Teun Koetsier; Cornelis De Pater; & Albert Van Helden (Editors). The Changing Image of the Sciences. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002.

Van Helden, Albert. Journal for the History of Astronomy. (Review) Isis 81:2 (June 1990) 298-299.

Van Helden, Albert. Measuring Solar Parallax: The Venus Transits of 1761 and 1769 and their the Nineteenth-Century Sequels. pp153-168. The General History of Astronomy, vol. 2B. ed. M. A. Hoskin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Van Helden, Albert. Naming the Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn. H.A.D. News 32 (August 1994) 1-2.

Van Helden, Albert. A Note on Christiaan Huygens's De Saturni Luna Observatio Nova. Janus 62 (1975) 13-15.

Van Helden, Albert. Rings in Astronomy and Cosmology, 1650-1900. pp12-22. Planetary Rings. ed. R. Greenberg and A. Brahic. University of Arizona Press, 1984.

Van Helden, Albert. Roemer's Speed of Light. Journal for the History of Astronomy 14 (1983) 137-41.

Van Helden, Albert. Saturn and his Anses. Journal for the History of Astronomy 5 (1974) 105-121.

Van Helden, Albert. Venus, Transits of. pp559-561, John Lankford, ed, History of Astronomy - an Encyclopedia, N.Y.: Garland, 1997.

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Véron, Philippe. Pré-histoire de l'Observatoire de Haute-Provence. Observatoire de Haute-Provence Preprint No.156 (24 Aug 2001). http://www.obs-hp.fr/www/preprints/pp156/pp156.pdf

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Viennot, Laurence & Jean Luc Leroy-Bury. Doppler and Römer: what do they have in common? Physics Education 39 (2004) 273-280. (Doppler effect)

(Vilette) An Account from Paris Concerning a Great Metallin Burning Concave, and Some of the Most Considerable Effects of It: Communicated by Severall Persons upon the Place, Where Tryals Have Been Made of It. Philosophical Transactions 4 (1669) 986-987.

(Vilette) An Account of a Not Ordinary Burning Concave, Iately Made at Lyons, and Compared with Several Others Made Formerly. Philosophical Transactions 1 (1665) 95-98.

Villiers, Chris de. Design and Construction of a Filar Micrometer. http://www.skywatch.co.za/index.htm Sept. 1999.

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Vogel, Werner, Klaus Gerth, & Wolfgang Heindorf. On the development of optical glass. Jena Review 1 (1965) 75-86.

Volkmer, Reiner, et al. GREGOR, the new 1.5 m solar telescope on Tenerife. pp360-369. Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 4853, Innovative Telescopes and Instrumentation for Solar Astrophysics. Bellingham: SPIE, 2003. (silicon carbide optics)

Von Rohr, Moritz. Theorie und Geschichte des photographischen Objektivs. Berlin: Springer, 1899. New York: Arno Press, 1979.

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Waagen, Elizabeth O. William Tyler Olcott, 1873-1936. The Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers 24:1 (1996) 50-58.

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Wadsworth, F.L.O. A Note on the Figuring and Use of the Eccentric and Unsymmetrical Forms of Parabolic Mirrors. Astrophysical Journal 7 (Feb. 1898) 146-149.

Wadsworth, F.L.O. A Note on Spider Lines. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 57 (June 1897) 589-591. (silvered quartz fiber)

Wadsworth, F.L.O. Notes on Silvering Solutions and Silvering. Astrophysical Journal 1 (March 1895) 252-260.

Wadsworth, F.L.O. On the construction of telescope whose relative or absolute focal length shall be invariable at all temperatures. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 63 (June 1903) 573-579.

Wadsworth, F.L.O. On the effect of the size of an objective on the visibility of linear markings on the planets. Astronomical Journal 18 (Oct. 1897) 41-45.