Topics: telescopes, observatories, instruments, optics, astronomy

Bennett, J.A. The Instrument Trade in Britain. Annals of Science (March 1997) 54:2 197-206. (Book Review 'Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers, 1550-1851,' by Gloria Clifton.)

Bennett, J.A. The Manuscript Archives of the Royal Astronomical Society Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 18 (Dec. 1977) 459-463.

Bennett, Jim. Quadrant. pp501-503. Bud, Robert & Deborah J. Warner. Instruments of Science, An Historical Encyclopedia. N.Y.: Garland, 1998.

Bennett, J.A. Robert Hooke as Mechanic and Natural Philosopher. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 35:1 (July 1980) 33-48.

Benson, Keith. Flail on, Columbia: an irreverent look at HSS's soggiest subsection, the Columbia History of Science Group. Isis 90 Supplement (1999) S240-S245.

Bergerac, Cyrano de. The comical history of the states and empires of the worlds of the moon and sun, written in French by Cyrano Bergerac; and newly Englished by A. Lovell. London: Printed for Henry Rhodes..., 1687. (CdB, 1619-1655.)

Berk, Sigmund & Leonard Teitell. Radioactive Materials in Prevention of Mold Growth in Optical Instruments. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry 46:4 (1954) 778-784.

Bernaola, Omar A. Enrique Gaviola and the Astronomical Observatory of Córdoba. Astrophysics and Space Science 290:3-4 (2004) 457-461. Proceedings of the Eleventh United Nations - European Space Agency Workshop, held in Córdoba, Argentina, 09 - 13 September 2002.

Bernbaum, John. The Captured German Records: A Bibliographical Survey. The Historian 32 (August 1970) 564-575.

(Berry) Arthur Berry, Historian of Astronomy (1862-1929). George Sarton. Isis 28:2 (May 1938) 418-420.

(Berthon) Hall, J.J. The Rev. Edward Lyon Berthon. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 60 (Feb. 1900) 314-316.

Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm. A Letter from Professor Bessel to Sir J. Herschel. Koenigsberg, Oct. 23, 1838. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 4 (1838) 152-161, 162-163. (parallax)

Bevenot, Hugh G. The Weingarten Planetarium. Isis 8:2 (May 1926) 300-312. (16C paintings)

Bevis, John. An Account of a Luminous Appearance in the Sky, Seen at London on Thursday March 13. 1734-5. Philosophical Transactions 41 (1740) 347-349.

Bevis, J. & James Short. Astronomical Observations Made in Surry-Street, London. Philosophical Transactions 48 (1753-1754) 301-305. (Dollond heliometer)

Bevis, John. Containing Astronomical Observations, Made at Vienna, by the Rev. Father Joseph Liesganig. Philosophical Transactions 55 (1765) 130-138. (list instruments Vienna Obs.)

Bevis, John. Containing Some Observations concerning Mercury. Philosophical Transactions 43 (1744) 48-49.

Bevis, John. An Eclipse of the Moon, Observed at Mr. Graham's in Fleet-Street, by John Bevis, M. D. and Mr. James Short, F. R. S. Philosophical Transactions 46 (1749) 247.

Bevis, John. Observation of the Eclipse of the Sun, April 1, 1764. Philosophical Transactions 54 (1764) 105-108.

Bevis, John. Observation of the Moon's Transit by Aldebaran, April 3, 1736. Philosophical Transactions 40 (1737) 90-91.

Bevis, John. Observations of the Last Transit of Venus, and of the Eclipse of the Sun the Next Day; Made at the House of Joshua Kirby, Esquire, at Kew. Philosophical Transactions 59 (1769) 189-191.

Bevis, John. An Occultation of the Planet Venus by the Moon in the Day Time, Observed in Surrey-Street, London, April 16, 1751. Philosophical Transactions 47 (1751) 159-163.

Bevis, John. The Sun's Eclipse of July 14, 1748. Observed at Marlborough House, with the Twelve Foot Refracting Telescope, Fix'd as a Finder to the Tube of the Great Twelve Foot Reflector. Philosophical Transactions 45 (1748) 521-523.

Bevis, J. & James Short. A Total Eclipse of the Moon, Observed Dec. 2, 1750. Philosophical Transactions 46 (1750) 575-577.

(Bevis) Clerke, A.M. Bevis or Bevans, John (1693-1771). Dictionary of National Biography. N.Y.: Macmillan, 1908.

Bevis, Paul. Optics in Research. n.p. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Convention of the Western Amateur Astronomers, 1962. (U.S.Naval Ordnance Test Station, Michelson Lab)

Biagioli, Mario. Galileo the Emblem Maker. Isis 81:2 (June 1990) 230-258.

Biberman, Lucien. Reticles in Electro-Optical Devices. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1966.

Biesbroeck, G. van. The Transit of Mercury in the Year 1707. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 73 (Nov. 1912) 34-36.

Biesbroeck, G. van. Visual observations of close doubles - performance of a large reflector for such work. Astronomical Journal 52 (July 1946) 34-35.

Bilbro, James. Optics in Orbit. OE Magazine 1:8 (Aug. 2001) http://oemagazine.com/fromTheMagazine/aug01/pdf/opticsinorbit.pdf JB:NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Bille, Objective measurement of wave aberrations of the human eye with the use of a Hartmann-Shack wave-front sensor. In: J. of the Optical Soc. of America : A 11 (1994) 1949--1957

Birkenmajer, Alexander. Alexius Sylvius Polonus (1593 - ca. 1653), a little-known maker of astronomical instruments. Vistas in Astronomy 9 (1967) 11-12. (Poland, Belgium, telescopic observations)

Bishop, Roy & David Lane. Visual Performance in Astronomy Near the Scotopic Threshold. Part 1: Temporal Integration. Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 98 (April 2004) 78-83. Part 2: Vision Versus CCD. J.R.A.S.C. 98 (April 2004) 84-91.

Bitter, Peter von. The Brunton Pocket Transit, A One Hundred Year Old North American Invention. Earth Sciences History 14: (1995) 98-102. ( http://member.newsguy.com/~wjhudson/compasses/vonbitter.html )

Blackwell, D.E.; D.W. Dewhirst; A. Dollfuss. The observation of solar granulation from a manned balloon. I.Observational Data and measurement of contrast. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 119 (1959) 98-111.

Blackwell, D.E.; A.D. Petford. Observations of the 1963 July 20 solar eclipse. I.Spectroscopic separation of the F & K components of the solar corona at large distances from the Sun. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 131 (1966) 383-398. aircraft, 30,000 feet; 10 cm telescope, diagram.

Blackwell, D.E.; D.W Dewhirst.; A.Dollfus. Photography of solar granulation from a manned balloon. The Observatory 77 (Feb. 1957) 20-23.

Blackwell, D.E. A study of the outer corona from a high altitude aircraft at the eclipse of 1954 June 30. I.Observational data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 115 (1955) 629-649.

Blackwell, H.R. Contrast Thresholds of the Human Eye. Journal of the Optical Society of America 36 (1946) 624-643.

Blackwell, Harold Richard. Optics and Vision: Period 1, July 1955 to 31 January 1956. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Engineering Research Institute, Vision Research Laboratories, 1957. 30pp. 6.3 Binoculars. http://www.hti.umich.edu/u/umr/

Blagrave, John. The art of dyalling in two parts. At London: Printed by N[icholas] O[kes] for Simon Waterson, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church yard, at the signe of the Crowne, 1609.

Blagrave, John. Astrolabium Uranicum Generale. London, 1596.

Blagrave, John. Baculum familliare, catholicon siue generale. London: Printed by Hugh Iackson dvvelling in Fleete-streete a little beneath the Conduit, at the signe of S. Iohn the Euangelist, 1590. (2, six foot legs & cross piece, gunners, multipurpose.)

Blair, Katherine. The UW Bamberg Transit Telescope. (University of Washington) http://www.astro.washington.edu/observatory/transit_telescope.pdf

Blair, W.P. Kepler's Supernova Remnant: The view at 400 Years. Proceedings of the conference '1604-2004: Supernovae as Cosmological Lighthouses'. 6pp. www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410081.

Blakesley, T.H. The Possible Effects of the War on British Optics. Transactions of the Optical Society 15:1 (1914-1915) 5-34.

Blanpied, William A. Raja Sawai Jai Singh II: An 18th century medieval astronomer. American Journal of Physics 43:12 (1975) 1025-1035.

Blatter, Heinz. Venustransit 2004. http://eclipse.astroinfo.org/transit/venus/project2004/pub/Blatter.etal.eng.200306.pdf (geometry and temporal patterns of transits, solar parallax) (Feb. 2004)

Blay, Michel. Note sur l' "Essai sur les degres de chaleur des rayons colores" de l'abbe Rochon. Revue d'histoire des sciences 38 (1985): (37-42)

A Blazing starre seene jn the West at Totneis in Devonshire, on the foureteenth of this instant November, 1642. London: Printed for Jonas Wright, and I. H., 1642. (comet)

Bleaney, Brebis. Centenary of the Zeeman Effect. Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London 52:1 (1998) 131-136.

Blitzstein, William. An analysis of the errors in John Flamsteed's Mural Arc observations. Vistas in Astronomy 41:1 (1997) 139-155.

Blundeville, Thomas. Mr. Blundevil His Exercises. London: Richard Bishop, 1638, 7th ed. Astrolabe, cross-staff, surveying.

Blundeville, Thomas. The theoriques of the seven planets. London : Printed by Adam Islip, 1602. (2nd ed.) (diagrams eclipses, planets)

Blyth, James. Graduation. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 9th ed. Vol. 11, pp27-30. N.Y.: Scribner's Sons, 1880.

Bobrovnikoff, N.T. Edmond Halley, 1656-1742. The Scientific Monthly 55:5. (Nov. 1942) 438-446.

Bok, Bart J. Mexican Astronomy, 1930-1950. Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica 7 (1983) 21-25.

Bok, Bart. The Promise of the Space Telescope. Congressional Record vol. 125, part 11 (1979) 13504-6.

(Bok) Jedicke, Peter. Bok, Bart Jan. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-02346.html Nov 25 2003.

Bolton, H.C. Optical instruments in Australia in the 1939-45 war: successes and lost opportunities. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/exhib_papers.htm Australian Physicist 27:3, March 1990. (The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/ )

Bolton, H.C. Some themes in the development of optics in Australia. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/bolton1.htm From Australian Physicist. Presentation to the Conference on Progress in Optical Physics at Melbourne University, August 1984. (The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/ )

(Bond, G.) Stephens, Carlene E. Bond, George Phillips. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-00164.html Nov 25 2003.

Bond, Peter. Rockets in Astronomy. Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics. www.eaa.iop.org November 2000.

(Bond, W.) Stephens, Carlene E. Bond, William Cranch. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-00165.html Nov 25 2003.

Bondi, H. Astronomy of the Future. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 11 (March 1970) 443-450.

Bondi, H. Fact and Inference in Theory and Observation. Vistas in Astronomy 1 (1960) 155-162.

Booker, John. Telescopium uranicum, or in plain English, An almanack and prognostication for the year of Christs incarnation MDCLXI. London : Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1661. B.J.: 1603-1667.

(Book Review - the Adjustment and Testing of Telescope Objectives.) Journal of the British Astronomical Association 95:1 (Dec. 1984) 42.
Boorde, Andrew. The pryncyples of astronamye the whiche diligently perscrutyd is in maners pronosticacyon to the worldes end compyled by Andrew Boorde of phisick Doctor. Enprynted at London : In [the] fletestrete at the sygne of the rose garland by Robert Coplande, 1547. 2nd ed. AB 1490?-1549.

Booth, Sara Elizabeth & Albert Van Helden. The Virgin and the Telescope: The Moons of Cigoli and Galileo. Science in Context 13: 3/4 (2000) 463-486. (Reprinted, chapter 4, Galileo in context, Jürgen Renn, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.)

Borel, Pierre, 1620?-1671. A new treatise, proving a multiplicity of worlds. London: printed by John Streater, 1658.

Born, Max. Astronomical Recollections. Vistas in Astronomy 1 (1955) 41-44.

Borne, Kirk D. Distributed data mining in the National Virtual Observatory. Proceedings of SPIE 5098, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 21-23 April, 2003. pp211-218.

Borne, Kirk D. Data Mining in Astronomical Databases http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0010583 Mining the Sky conference, MPA ESO MPE, Garching, August 2000 http://nvo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nvo_datamining.html (.pdf)

(Boss) Carter, Merri Sue. Boss, Lewis. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-00171.html Nov 25 2003.

Boswell, P.G.H. Sands for glass-making, with especial reference to optical glass. Transactions of the Optical Society 16 (1915-1916) 227-275.

Bourne, William. A Booke Called the Treasure for Traveilers. Imprinted at London: [By Thomas Dawson] for Thomas Woodcocke, dwelling in Paules Churchyarde, at the sygne of the blacke Beare, 1578.

Bourne, William. Inventions or Devises. At London: Printed [by T. Orwin] for Thomas Woodcock dwelling in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the black Beare, 1590. (1578)

Bourne, William. A Regiment for the sea. Imprinted at London: By T. Est, for Thomas Wight, 1592 (log for ships speed, cross-staff, astrolabe.)

Boutry, G.A. Instrumental Optics. translated by R. Auerbach. N.Y.: Interscience, 1962. pp446-481, telescopes.

Boutry, G.A. Some Aspects of Instrumental Physics in France (1939-1946). Journal of Scientific Instruments 24:11 (Nov. 1947) 281-295.

Bovey, E. Graticules and fine scales: their production and application in modern measuring systems. Journal of Scientific Instruments 39 (August 1962) 405-413.

Bowditch. Chapter 16, Instruments for Celestial Navigation, The Marine Sextant. pp273-281. (.pdf)

(Bowditch) Rothenberg, Marc. Bowditch, Nathaniel. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-00173.html Nov 25 2003.

Bowen, E.J. & Harold Hartley. The Right Reverend John Wilkins, F.R.S. (1614-1672). Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 15 (July 1960) 47-56.

Bowen, I.S. Astronomical spectrographs: Past, present, and future. Vistas in Astronomy 1 (1955) 400-405.

Bowen, I.S. Exploration with the Hale Telescope. Science 145 (#3639) (Sept. 25 1964) 1391-1398.

Bowen, I.S. Limiting Visual Magnitude. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 59 (Oct. 1947) 253-256. (#350)

Bowman, Edmund On the Measurement of Distances by the Telescope. Abstracts of the Papers Communicated to the Royal Society of London 5 (1844) 510. (divided staff observed in field of telescope)

Boyer, Carl B. Early Estimates of the Velocity of Light. Isis 33:1 (March 1941) 24-40.

Boyle, Robert. An Essay of the Great Effects of Even Languid and Unheeded Motion.....causes of the Insalubrity and Salubrity of Air & its Effects.

Boys, C.V. A meridian instrument. Journal of Scientific Instruments 2:2 (November 1924) 39-44.

Boys, C.V. The Radio-Micrometer. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. A, Vol. 180. (1889), pp. 159-186. (infrared)

Boys, C.V. A telescope support. Journal of Scientific Instruments 1:12 (September 1924) 366-368.

Bracher, Katherine. The Astronomical Journal: A Mirror of Astronomy. The Astronomical Journal 117 (Jan. 1999) 12-16.

Bracher, Katherine. The Historical Astronomy Division. The American Astronomical Society's first century. David H. DeVorkin, ed. Washington, DC: American Institute of Physics, 1999., pp277-286.

Bradbury, Savile. The Royal Microscopical Society and the Development of Microscopical Standards: 1839-1939. Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society 24 (1989) 167-183.

Bradley, James. A Letter from the Reverend Mr. James Bradley… to Dr. Edmond Halley… Giving an Account of a New Discovered Motion of the Fix'd Stars. Philosophical Transactions 35 (1727-1728) 637-661.

Bradley, James. A Letter to the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield concerning an Apparent Motion Observed in Some of the Fixed Stars. Philosophical Transactions 45 (1748) 1-43.

Bradt, Hale, Takaya Ohashi, & Kenneth Pounds. X-Ray Astronomy Missions. Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics 30 (1992) 391-427.

Brahe, Tycho. Learned: Tico Brahae his astronomicall coniectur of the new and much admired [star] which appered in the year 1572. Printed at London: By B.A. and T.F. for Michaell [Sparke] and Samuell Nealand, 1632. T.B.: 1546-1601.

Brasch, Frederick. John Winthrop (1714-1779), America's First Astronomer, and the Science of his Period. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 28 (1916) 153-170.

Brasch, Frederick. Newton's First Critical Disciple in the American Colonies - John Winthrop. pp301-338. History of Science Society, ed. Sir Isaac Newton, 1727-1927; a bicentenary evaluation of his work. Baltimore, The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1928.

Brasch, Frederick E. The Royal Society of London and Its Influence Upon Scientific Thought in the American Colonies. Scientific Monthly 33:4 (Oct. 1931) 336-355. 33:5 (Nov. 1931) 448-469. (Rittenhouse; p454 Winthrop telescopes)

Brashear, John A. Critical Methods of Detecting Errors in Plane Surfaces. Scientific American Supplement, Vol. 19, No. 484 (April 11, 1885) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13939 (also: S.J. Perry, Astronomical Photography, reprint, Br. Jour. of Photography.)

Brashear, R.S. The Astrophysical Journal: A New Journal for a New Science. Astrophysical Journal 455 (Dec. 1995) 403-406.

Brattle, Tho. & J. Hodgson. An Account of Some Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, Observed by Mr Tho. Brattle, at Cambridge, about Four Miles from Boston in New-England, Whence the Difference of Longitude between Cambridge and London is Determin'd, from an Observation Made of One of Them at London. Philosophical Transactions 24 (1704 - 1705) 1630-1638. (red glass filter)

(Brattle) Kennedy, Rick. Brattle, Thomas. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/01/01-00100.html Nov 25 2003.

Bray, Francesca. Eloge: Joseph Needham, 9 December 1900-24 March 1995. Isis 87:2 (June 1996) 312-317.
Bray, R.J. Australia and the Transit of Venus. Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia 4 (1980)114-120.

Brayne, John. Astrologie proved to be the old doctrine of demons, professed by the worshippers of Saturne, Jupiter, Mars, sunne and moon. London: Printed by M.S. for John Hancock ..., 1653.

Brealey, G.A. The Ottawa Mirror Transit Telescope. Sky & Telescope 21:4 (April 1961) 205-209.

Breckinridge, J.B., Aden B. Meinel and Marjorie P. Meinel. Inflatable Membrane Mirrors for Optical Passband Imagery. NASA Origins project paper.

Brewster, David. On a new series of periodical colours produced by the grooved surfaces of metallic and transparent bodies. Extracted from The Royal Society of London Philosophical Transactions. Read May 21, 1829.

Brewster. David. On the Reflection and Decomposition of Light at the Separating Surfaces of Media of the Same and of Different Refractive Powers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 119 (1829) 187-205.

Brewster, David. Treatise on New Philosophical Instruments. London, 1813

Brewster, William. A Turret Telescope. Publication of the Astronomical Society of Pomona College 2:1 (Oct. 1912) 33-34. (review of Mitchell paper, June/July Popular Astronomy)

Briggs, Lyman J. Early Work of the National Bureau of Standards. The Scientific Monthly 73:3 (Sept. 1951) 166-175. (optical glass, p172 & plates)

Briggs, Lyman J. Laboratories in the Stratosphere. The Scientific Monthly 40:4 (April 1935) 295-306. (1934, Nat'l. Geographic Explorer)

Briggs, William. Nova visionis theoria. Londini: Typis J.P. impensis Sam. Simpson ... & prostant venales apud Sam. Smith ..., 1685. 50pp. W.B.: 1642-1704.

Brinkley, John. An Account of Observations Made with the Eight Feet Astronomical Circle, at the Observatory of Trinity College, Dublin, since the Beginning of the Year 1818, for Investigating the Effects of Parallax and Aberration on the Places of Certain Fixed Stars; Also the Comparison of These with Former Observations for Determining the Effects of Lunar Nutation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 111. (1821), pp. 327-360.

Brinkley, John. On the Parallax of Certain Fixed Stars. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 108. (1818), pp. 275-302.

Brinkley, J. Results of the Application of Captain Kater's Floating Collimator to the Astronomical Circle at the Observatory of Trinity College, Dublin, and Remarks Relative to Those Results. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 116 (1826) 307-323.

Brinkley, John. The Results of Observations Made at the Observatory of Trinity College, Dublin, for Determining the Obliquity of the Ecliptic, and the Maximum of the Aberration of Light. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 109. (1819), pp. 241-248.

Broecke, Steven Vanden. Dee, Mercator, and Louvain Instrument Making: an Undescribed Astrological Disc by Gerard Mercator (1551). Annals of Science 58:3 (July 2001) 219-240. http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=4974805&db=aph (astrological disc which Mercator published at Louvain in May 1551)

(Bressani) Heidenreich, Conrad. Bressani, Francesco Giuseppe. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/20/20-00106.html Nov. 25 2003.

Brewster, David. A Treatise on Optics. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. http://dlib.stanford.edu:6520/text1/dd-ill/optics.pdf 33m Dec. 2003

British Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee. The Leica Camera. B.I.O.S. Final Report No. 1436, Item No. 9. 1946.

Brooks, G.P. & R.C. Brooks. The Improbable Progenitor: the Discovery of the Personal Equation. Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 73 (1979) 9-23.

Brooks, John. The Circular Dividing Engine: Development in England 1739-1843. Annals of Science 49:2 (March 1992) 101-135. (Ramsden, Hindley, Troughton, J. Allan, A. Ross, W. Simms)

Brooks, Michael. The Liquid Telescope. New Scientist 176 (30 Nov. 2002) 40-43.

Brooks, R. Book-Review - Van Helden, The Invention of the Telescope. Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 74 (Dec. 1980) 371-372.

Brooks, Randall. Dividing Engine. pp184-186. Bud, Robert & Deborah J. Warner. Instruments of Science, An Historical Encyclopedia. N.Y.: Garland, 1998.

Brooks, Randall C. Errors in Measurement of the Solar Diameter in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Journal for the History of Astronomy 19:4 (Nov. 1988) (micrometer error, testing early instruments)

Brooks, Randall C. Forty Years of Analytical Studies. Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society #82 (Sept. 2004) 4-9. (micrometer error & astronomical measurement; telescope objectives)

Brooks, Randall. Micrometer. pp380-382. Bud, Robert & Deborah J. Warner. Instruments of Science, An Historical Encyclopedia. N.Y.: Garland, 1998.

Broughton, Peter. Astronomy in Seventeenth-Century Canada. Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 75:4 (1981) 175-208. (Erratum; Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 75 (1981) 340: 'p203, line 29, March 7, 1970, not Dec.')