Topics: telescopes, observatories, instruments, optics, astronomy

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Crowell, Benjamin. Optics. 1999. www.lightandmatter.com

Cruikshank, Dale P. The Ashen Light of Venus. p. 43-60. Research amateur astronomy; Proceedings of the Symposium, ed. S. J. Edberg, ASP Conference Series vol. 33. San Francisco: ASP, 1992.

Cunningham, Randy. A Guide to Building Truss Tube Telescopes. Johnstown: AstroSystems, 1995. 61pp.

Cuningham, William. The cosmographical glasse. London, 1559. Pub: Excussum Londini : In officina Ioan. Daij typographi, 1559 (2nd ed.) (Astronomical & surveying instruments. Some of text & illustrations are from Peter Apian 'Cosmographia'.) WC: b. 1531.

Curtis, Heber D. The Comet-Seeker Hoax. Reprint from: Popular Astronomy 46:2 (Feb. 1938). (Barnard telescope hoax)

Curtis, H.D. Crossley Reflector Improvements. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 25 (Oct. 1913) 265-266.

Curtis, Heber. Optical Glass. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 31 (1919) 77-85.

(Curtis) Osterbrock, Donald E. Curtis, Heber Doust. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-00372.html Nov 25 2003.

Curtiss, R.H. The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America. Science 34 (#877) (Oct. 20, 1911) 520-536. (p536, A.E. Douglass, Note on the Ellicott Astronomical Instruments. U.S. Nat'l Museum. Zenith sector with Rittenhouse telescope. Small zenith sector. Transit & equal altitude instrument. Quadrant. W&S Jones telescope.)

Czapski, S. The Jena Glass. The Observatory 12 (June 1889) 255-256.

Czenakal, V.L. The astronomical instruments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the museums of the U.S.S.R. Vistas in Astronomy 9 (1967) 53-77.

Dainty, J.C. Optical Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence. from: Ageorges & Dainty, ed. Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics for Astronomy. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000. (.pdf)

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Daniel, R.R.,et al. A 750mm balloon-borne telescope for far-infrared observations. Journal of Physics E: Scientific instruments 17:2 (Feb. 1984) 160-168.

Dariot, Claude. A briefe and most easie introduction to the astrologicall iudgement of the stares. London: Printed by Thomas Purfoot, 1598. 2nd ed. C.D.: 1533-1594.

Darius, Jon. Book Review, John Brashear, A Man who Loved the Stars. Annals of Science 47:4 (July 1990) 412-413.

Darius, J. & P.K. Thomas. Crosswires in a guiding eyepiece. Journal of Physics E: Scientific instruments 14 (1981) 761-765.

Darius, Jon. A Double Centenary in Celestial Photography. The Observatory 103 (1983) 46-48.

Darwin, L., Arthur Schuster, & E. Walter Maunder. On the Total Solar Eclipse of August 29, 1886. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 180 (1889) 291-350.

Das, Sukumar Ranjan. Scope and Development of Indian Astronomy. Osiris 2 (1936) 197-219. (pre-telescopic)

Davidovich, Paul. Russian Observatories. Popular Astronomy 38 (1930) 144-147.

(Davidson) Osterbrock, Donald E. Davidson, George. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-00396.html Nov 25 2003.

Davidson Optronics, Inc. Optical Spectra 3 (May/June 1969) 28-29. (150 inch, 108 inch telescope mirrors)

da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (complete). Translated by Mrs. R. C. Bell and E. J. Poynter, edited by Jean Paul Richter. Project Gutenberg Release #5000 (January 2004) http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5000

Davis, J.E. On Antarctic Discovery and Its Connection with the Transit of Venus in 1882. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 39 (1869) 91-95.

Davis, John & Bernard Lovell. Robert Hanbury Brown, 1916-2002. Biographical memoirs, Australian Academy of Science. http://www.science.org.au/academy/memoirs/brown.htm March 2005. Reprinted from Historical Records of Australian Science 14:4 (2003).

Davis, John. The Seaman's Secrets, Devided into two parts, wherein is taught the three kindes of Sayling, Horizontal, Paradoxal, and Sayling upon a Great Circle. 1594, 1657 eighth printing.

Davis, Paul. Optics in Research. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Convention of the Western Amateur Astronomers, 1962.

Davis, Robert, William Deutschman, & Katherine Haramundanis. Celescope Catalog of Ultraviolet Stellar Observations. Washington: Smithsonian, 1973.

Davison, Warren & Roger Angel. Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Mechanical Structure and Design. Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4836-18, Survey and Other Telescope Technologies and Discoveries, edited by J. Anthony Tyson & Sidney Wolff. Conference Kona, HI, 2002.

Dawes, W.R. Description of an Observing Chair. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 28 (1867) 9.

Dawes, W.R. Remarks on some Astronomical Eyepieces. M.N.R.A.S. 23 (1863) 37-40.

Day, W. The birth of kinematography, and its antecedents. Transactions of the Optical Society 24:2 (January 1923) 69-71.

Deane, Robert. The Design and Calibration of Popular Schmidt Cassegrain Telescopes. Mill Bay, Canada: Deane, 1999. 59pp.

Deane, Thatcher E. Instruments and Observation at the Imperial Astronomical Bureau during the Ming Dynasty. Osiris 9 (1994) 126-140.

Débarbat, Suzanne. Cassini's Meridian. Vistas in Astronomy 28:1 (1985) 183-186.

Decker, Wilbur F. The Home-made Telescope. Minneapolis: Perine, 1935. 46pp.

de Clercq, Peter. 'A chronicle of lesser men'. E.G.R. Taylor and her 'Mathematical Practitioners of England'. Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society #81 (2004) 31-33.

Deiman, J.C. A Myth Revealed: The Case of the 'Beeldsnyder Achromatic Objective'. Annals of Science 48:6 (Nov. 1991) 577-581.

Dekker, E. Early explorations of the Southern Celestial Sky. Annals of Science 44:5 (Sept. 1987) 439-470

Dekker, Elly. The Light and the Dark: A Reassessment of the Discovery of the Coalsack Nebula, the Magellanic Clouds and the Southern Cross. Annals of Science 47:6 (Nov. 1990), 529-560.

De la Rue, Warren. The Bakerian Lecture: On the Total Solar Eclipse of July 18th, 1860, Observed at Rivabellosa, near Miranda de Ebro, in Spain. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 12 (1862-1863) 58-64.

De la Rue, Warren. Comparison of Mr. De la Rue's and Padre Secchi's Eclipse Photographs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 13 (1863-1864) 442-444.

De la Rue, W. On a piece of apparatus for carrying out M. Janssen's method of time-photographic observations of the transit of Venus. MNRAS 34 (1874) 347-353. (ref. Capello)

De la Rue, Warren. On the Total Solar Eclipse of July 18, 1860, Observed at Rivabellosa, Near Miranda de Ebro, in Spain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 152 (1862) 333-416. 13 plates, some color.

De la Rue, Warren. Stereoscopic Photographs of the Moon. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 19 (Nov. 1858) 40.

Delaudier, Francis, et al. Chromatic refraction with global ozone monitoring by occultation of stars. Applied Optics 40:6 (Feb. 20, 2001) 866-877, 878ff.

Delsemme, A.H. Ice in comets. Journal of Physical Chemistry 87:21 (1983) 4214-4218.

Delury, Ralph E. A Device for Guiding the Image Produced by a Cœlostat Telescope. Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 5 (Feb. 1911) 33-35.

Demianski, M. & J.M. Pasachoff. Coelostat and heliostat - Theory of alignment. Solar Physics 93 (June 1984) 211-217.

D'Engelhardt, B. Observations Astronomiques. Premiere Partie. Dresden: G. Baensch, 1886. (8 inch Grubb, 1878. Cooke. Bamberg.)

Denny, Margaret. The Royal Society and American Scholars. The Scientific Monthly 65:5 (Nov. 1947) 415-427.

Derham, William. The artificial clock-maker: a treatise of watch and clock-work, wherein the art of calculating numbers for most sorts of movements is explained to the capacity of the unlearned: also, the history of watch and clock-work, both antient and modern: with other useful matters never before publish'd: to which is added A supplement. London: James Knapton, 1700 (2nd ed.) 176pp., including 28pp. supplement. (Monsieur Romer's satellite instrument, with observations conerning the calculation of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, and to find the longitude by them. To make a telescope to keep a watch by fixed stars.)

Derham, William. An Instrument, for Seeing the Sun, Moon, or Stars, Pass the Meridian of Any Place. Useful for Setting Watches in All Parts of the World with the Greatest Exactness, to Correct Sun-Dyals; To Assist in the Discovery of the Longitudes of Places, etc. Philosophical Transactions 24 (1704-1705) 1578-1585.

Derham, W. Observations of the Appearances among the Fix'd Stars, Called Nebulous Stars. Philosophical Transactions 38 (1733-1734) 70-74. "...whether these nebulae are particular spaces of light,....or chasms or openings into an immense region of light beyond the fix'd stars." p74

Desaguliers, J.T. An Account of an Optical Experiment Made before the Royal Society, on Thursday, Dec. 6th, and Repeated on the 13th, 1722. Philosophical Transactions (1723) 206-208.

Desaguliers, J.T. An Account of Some Experiments of Light and Colours, Formerly Made by Sir Isaac Newton, and Mention'd in His Opticks, Lately Repeated before the Royal Society by J. T. Desaguliers, F.R.S. Philosophical Transactions 29 (1714-1716) 433-447.

Desaguliers, J.T., and J. Harris. An Account of Some Experiments Tried with Mons. Villette's Burning Concave, in June 1718. Philosophical Transactions 30 (1718) 976-977. (47 inch diameter speculum mirror, 38 inch focus)

Desaguliers, John Theophilus. A Dissertation concerning the Figure of the Earth. Philosophical Transactions 33 (1724-1725) 201-222.

Desaguliers, John Theophilus. The Dissertation concerning the Figure of the Earth Continued. Philosophical Transactions 33 (1724-1725) 239-255.

Desaguliers, John Theophilus. A Dissertation concerning the Figure of the Earth. Part the Second. Philosophical Transactions 33 (1724-1725) 277-304.

Desaguliers, John Theophilus. An Experiment to Illustrate What Has Been Said in the Philosophical Transactions, No. 386, 387, 388, concerning the Figure of the Earth. Philosophical Transactions 33 (1724-1725) 344-345.

Desaguliers, J.T. and Abbe Nolet. New Experiments upon Ice; Taken from Abbe Nolet, F.R.S. at Paris. Philosophical Transactions 40 (1737) 307-310.

Desaguliers, J.T. Optical Experiments Made in the Beginning of August 1728, before the President and Several Members of the Royal Society, and Other Gentlemen of Several Nations, upon Occasion of Signior Rizzetti's Opticks, with an Account of the Said Book. Philosophical Transactions 35 (1727-1728) 596-629.

Desaguliers, J.T. A Plain and Easy Experiment to Confirm Sir Isaac Newton's Doctrine of the Different Refrangibility of the Rays of Light. Philosophical Transactions 29 (1716) 448-452.

Desaguliers, J.T. Remarks on Some Attempts Made towards a Perpetual Motion. Philosophical Transactions 31 (1720) 234-239.

Desaguliers, J.T. Some Thoughts and Conjectures concerning the Cause of Elasticity. Philosophical Transactions 41 (1739) 175-185.

Deutsch, Armin J.; Righini, G. An Airborne Observation of the Coronal Spectrum at the Eclipse of July 20, 1963. Astrophysical Journal 140 (July 1964) 313-318.

Deutsch, Armin J. Recent Progress in Astrophysics: M. Waldmeier's Work on the Corona. Astrophysical Journal 101 (Jan. 1945) 117-130.

De Vany, Arthur S. Making a Schmidt Correcting Plate. Sky & Telescope 2:7 (May 1943) 18-19.

De Vany, Arthur. Optical Design for Two Telescopes. Applied Optics 2:2 (Feb. 1963) 201-204. (f/0.35 solid Schmidt; f/5 solid Cassegrain)

De Vany, Arthur. Rapid Method of Making a Schmidt Correcting Lens. Popular Astronomy 47 (April 1939) 197-200.

De Vany, Arthur S. A "Universal" Telescope of the Wright Type. Sky & Telescope 70 (August 1985) 167-171.

DeVorkin, David H. Community and Spectral Classification in Astrophysics: The Acceptance of E. C. Pickering's System in 1910. Isis 72:1 (March 1981) 29-49.

DeVorkin, David H. The Dawn of Balloon Astronomy. Sky & Telescope 72 (Dec. 1986) 579-581. (Pluvinel)

DeVorkin, David. The Maintenance of a Scientific Institution: Otto Struve, the Yerkes Observatory, and its Optical Bureau During the Second World War. Minerva 18 (1980) 595-623.

DeVorkin, David H. Structure and Evolution of the Sun and Stars, 1800–1955. Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics. www.eaa.iop.org November 2000.

DeVorkin, David H. Venus 1882: Public, Parallax, and HNR. Sky and Telescope 64 (Dec. 1982) 524-526. (Transit of Venus)

DeVorkin, David H. W.W. Campbell's Spectroscopic Study of the Martian Atmosphere. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 18 (March 1977) 37-53.

Dew, G.D. The measurement of optical flatness. Journal of Scientific Instruments 43 (1966) 409-415. (liquid flats)

Dewhirst, D.W. The Greenwich-Cambridge Axis. Vistas in Astronomy 20:1 (1976) 109-111.

Dewitt, J.H., C.K. Seyfert, R.H. Hardie. An Electronically Controlled Telescope Drive. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 70 (1958) 293-298. (24 inch Baker-Schmidt, Dyer Observatory, Vanderbilt University)

Dick, Steve, et al. Queenstown and the 1874 Transit of Venus. Carter Observatory Information Sheet No. 11.

Dick, Steven J. Pulkovo Observatory and the National Observatory Movement - an Historical Overview. pp29-38. Inertial Coordinate System on the Sky. I.A.U. Symposium 141, 1989. 1990.

Dick, Steven J. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence and the NASA High Resolution Microwave Survey (HRMS) - Historical perspectives. Space Science Reviews 64 (1993) 93-139.

Dick, Steven J. Transits of Venus and the American Expeditions of 1874 and 1882. GSFC Scientific Colloquium, January 30, 2004. (Powerpoint)

Dickinson, Terence & Alan Dyer. The Backyard Astronomer's Guide. Willowdale: Firefly Books, 2002. Appendix A: Star Testing Your Telescope. Appendix B: Cleaning and Collimating Your Telescope. Appendix C: Polar Aligning Your Telescope. Appendix D: Eclipses and Transits. (.pdf)

Digges, Leonard. An arithmeticall warlike treatise named Stratioticos. At London: Imprinted by Richard Field, 1590. 380pp., p124 -| p225

Digges, Leonard. A boke named Tectonicon. Imprynted at London: By Thomas Gemini, dwellynge within the Blacke Friers: who is there ready exactly to make all the instrumentes apperteynynge to this booke. 1562

Digges, Leonard. A booke named Tectonicon. At London : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, and are to be sold by Robert Allott, at the signe of the Grey-hound in Paules Church-yard, 1626 (2nd ed.) (Surveying; carpenters rule, cross-staff.)

Digges, Leonard and Thomas. A geometrical practise, named Pantometria. London, 1571, 1591 2nd. ed. Imprinted at London : By Henrie Bynneman, 1571 (2nd ed., revised) (Surveying instruments; staff, quadrant, circles, geometrical square; Topographicall instrument - altazimuth theodolite.) instruments for surveying, navigation, and gunnery. "According to Thomas Digges's circumstantial account in Pantometrie, his father, Leonard Digges, made 'proportionall Glasses' using 'concave and convex mirrors', that is reflecting telescopes, 'so that a small object might be discerned as plainly as if it were close to the observer, thought it might be as far distant as the eye could descrie'. It is equally certain that as early as the 1550s Leonard Digges had made refracting telescopes."-Waters, The Art of Navigation in England, p. 298. Thomas Digges (1546?-95)

Digges, Leonard. Tectonicon, or, The art of measuring of land, squares, timber, stones, pillers, globes, boards and glass, with the carpenters rule, geometrical quadrant, and two useful tables by Digges, Leonard, d. 1571? London : Printed for William Miller, 1692

Digges, Thomas. Noua corpora regularia: seu, Quinque corporum regularium simplicium, in quinque alia regularia composita, metamorphosis. Inventa ante annos 60 à Thoma Diggseio Armigero, jam, prolematibus additis nonnullis, demonstrata à nepote. Londini: Apud Thomam Harperum, 1634. (Latin; paper outlines of polyhedra)

Dijksterhuis, E.J. Christiaan Huygens. Centaurus 2 (1951-1953) 265-282. http://tidsskrift.kb.dk/centaurus/showtext.pl?ar_id=44&page=00265 Jan. 2005.

Di Marzio, Frank. The 4 1/2" Cooke Refractor of the Old Melbourne Observatory. n.d., n.p.

Dingqiang, Su. Progress in astronomical optical instrumentation in China. Vistas in Astronomy 31 (1988) 729-740.

Disney, M.J. Optical Arrays. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 160 (1972) 213-232.

Dix, John. Zenith instruments at Greenwich. Vistas in Astronomy 20:1 (1976) 171-172. Airy's water telescope.

Dixey, W.A. The education of the optician. Transactions of the Optical Society 2 (1900-1901) 35-46.

Dixey, W.A. On the design, details of construction, and use of trench periscopes. Transactions of the Optical Society 15:1 (1914-1915) 78-98.

Dixey, W.A. Periscopic lenses. Transactions of the Optical Society 6 (1904-1905) 1-9.

Dixon, Mr. & Charles Mason. Observations Made at the Cape of Good Hope; By Mr. Charles Mason and Mr. Dixon; Reduced to Apparent Time by Mr. Mason. With an Appendix. Philosophical Transactions 52 (1761-1762) 378-394. (p378, table for object glass micrometer: 'decimals of an inch / angle; divisions of vernier / angle')

Djorgovski, S., et al. Exploration of Large Digital Sky Surveys. Mining the Sky. (Garching, August 2000) eds. A. Banday et al., ESO Astrophysics Symposia, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2001. 18p. http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0012489

Djurle, E., E. Ingelstam, & L. Johansson. Cementing optical glasses to obtain strong joints free from striae. Journal of Scientific Instruments 31:3 (March 1954) 86-90.

Dobbins, Thomas & William Sheehan. The Canals of Mars Revisited. Sky and Telescope 107:3 (March 2004)114-117.

Dobbins, Thomas & William Sheehan. Johann Schroeter's 'Extremely Dark Spots Of Jupiter'. Journal of the British Astronomical Association 107:3 (June 1997) 144-146.

Dodd, L.E. Comparison Tests for Striae in Optical Glass by the Brashear Converging Light, Direct-view Method, the Bureau of Standards Tank Immersion Method, and the Short Range Projection Method. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 2 (1919) 977-1006.

Dodgson, Neil A. Variation and extrema of human interpupillary distance. pp36-46. Proceedings of SPIE 5291, Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems XI; conference 19-22 January 2004. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~nad/pubs/EI5291A-05.pdf

Dollond, Peter. ...Additions and Alterations Made to Hadley's Quadrant, to Render It More Serviceable at Sea. Philosophical Transactions 62 (1772) 95-98.

Donkin, A.E. On an Instrument for the Composition of Two Harmonic Curves. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 22 (1873-1874) 196-199.

Donnelly, Marian Card. Astronomical Observatories in New England. Old-Time New England 50:3 (Winter 1960) 72-80.

Donnelly, Marian C. Jefferson's Observatory Design. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 36:1 (March 1977) 33-35.

Donnelly III, William J. & Austin Roorda. The Optimal Pupil Size in the Human Eye for Axial Resolution. http://www.opt.uh.edu/research/aroorda/Journal of the Optical Society of America_Donnelly&Roorda.pdf Oct. 2003

Dougherty, L.M. & A. Dollfus. F.D. Arago's polarimeter and his original observation of extraterrestrial polarisation in 1811. Journal of the British Astronomical Association 99:4 (Aug. 1989) 183-186.

Dougherty, L.M. Heliostats Coelostats and Siderostats. Journal of the British Astronomical Association 93 (Feb. 1982) 38.

Dougherty, L.M. Heliostats Siderostats and Coelostats. Journal of the British Astronomical Association 95:6 (Oct. 1985) 270-271.

Dougherty, L.M. A Note on the Principle and Nomenclature of Heliostats, Coelostats, and Siderostats. Journal of the British Astronomical Association 92:4 (1982) 182-187.

Douglas, A. Vibert. Astronomy at Queen's University. Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 52 (1958) 82-86. (Kingston, Canada. Fecker 15 inch Cassegrain)

(Douglass) Webb, George E. Douglass, Andrew Ellicott. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-00434.html Nov 25 2003.

Dowell, J.H. A description of the three prism spectro-graph for the royal observatory, Edinburgh. Transactions of the Optical Society 31:4 (May 1930) 226-228.

Dowell, J.H. Slitless spectrograph for the greenwich observatory 36-in. reflector. Journal of Scientific Instruments 12:7 (July 1935) 224-225. (Hilger)

Doyle, K. & Mark Kahan. Design strength of optical glass. SPIE Vol. 5176 (3), San Diego, CA, August, 2003 http://www.sigmadyne.com/sigweb/pubs.htm

Dracup, Joseph. Geodetic Surveys in the United States. http://www.history.noaa.gov/stories_tales/geodetic1.html http://www.history.noaa.gov/stories_tales/geod1.html

Draganov, Vladamir. Compact telescope for FS communications. www.fsona.com pdf

Drake, Frank. A Brief History of SETI. pp11-18. Third Decennial US-USSR Conference on SETI. G.S. Shostak, ed. ASP Conference Series Vol. 47, 1993.

Drake, Frank. Large Telescopes Utilizing Fixed Primaries. pp649-676. Optical and Infrared Telescopes for the 1990's. Proceedings of the conference held 7-12 January, 1980 in Tucson, AZ. Adelaide Hewitt, ed. Tucson: Kitt Peak National Observatory, 1980.

Drake, F.D. A Review of the History, Present Status, and Course of American Radio Astronomy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 49:6 (June 15 1963) 759-766.

Drake, Stillman. Book review: Galileo in China; by Pasquale M. D'Elia, translated by Rufus Suter & Matthew Sciascia. Isis 53:3 (Sept. 1962) 409-410.

Drake, Stillman. Galileo Gleanings I: Some Unpublished Anecdotes of Galileo. Isis 48:4 (Dec. 1957) 393-397.

Drake, Stillman. Galileo Gleanings II: a Kind Word for Salusbury. Isis 49:1 (March 1958) 26-33.

Drake, Stillman. Galileo Gleanings III: A Kind Word for Sizzi. Isis 49:2 (June 1958) 155-165. (Scheiner)

Drake, Stillman. Galileo Gleanings IV: Bibliographical Notes. Isis 49:4 (Dec. 1958) 409-413.

Drake, Stillman. Galileo Gleanings V. The Earliest Version of Galileo's Mechanics. Osiris 13 (1958) 262-290.

Drake, Stillman. Galileo Gleanings VIII: The Origin of Galileo's Book on Floating Bodies and the Question of the Unknown Academician. Isis 51:1 (March 1960) 56-63.

Drake, Stillman. Galileo Gleanings XII: An Unpublished Letter of Galileo to Peiresc. Isis 53:2 (June 1962) 201-211.

Drake, Stillman. Galileo Gleanings XX: The Uniform Motion Equivalent to a Uniformly Accelerated Motion from Rest. Isis 63:1 (March 1972) 28-38.

Drake, Stillman. Galileo Gleanings XXII: Galileo's Experimental Confirmation of Horizontal Inertia: Unpublished Manuscripts. Isis 64:3 (Sept. 1973) 290-305.

Drake, Stillman. Galileo Gleanings XXIV: The Evolution of De motu. Isis 67:2 (June 1976) 239-250.

Drake, Stillman. Kepler and Galileo. Vistas in Astronomy 18 (1975) 237-247.

(Drake) Buchwald, Jed & Noel Swerdlow. Eloge: Stillman Drake, 24 December 1910-6 October 1993. Isis 85:4 (Dec. 1994) 663-666.

(Draper) Plotkin, Howard. Draper, Henry. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-00437.html Nov 25 2003.

Drayson, Alfred Wilkes. A Night at Greenwich Observatory Royal Observatory. Cornhill Magazine 7 (1863) 381-389. (no author noted in journal)

Dreyer, J.L.E. Astronomical Bibliography. Observatory 14 (1891) 322-325. (Houzeau-Lancaster; Crawford Lib. catalog)