Topics: telescopes, observatories, instruments, optics, astronomy

Pickering, Edward Charles. The future of astronomy. Cambridge: Harvard College Observatory, 1909. 12pp. (Reprinted from Popular Science Monthly, August, 1909, pp105-116) http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N095004

Pickering, Edward. Mountain Observatories. Appalachia 3 (Read March 14, 1883) 99-106. The Observatory v6, p287. (ADS Harvard College Observatory Papers v1, p474-481) (horizontal mounting)

Pickering, Edward C. A New Form of Photographic Telescope. Astrophysical Journal 9 (March 1899) 175-178.

Pickering, Edward C. The Objective Prism. 1892. 5pp. (Reprinted from Astronomy and Astrophysics #103) (ADS Harvard College Observatory Papers v2 p140-149)

Pickering, Edward. A Plan for the Extension of Astronomical Research. Cambridge: John Wilson, 1886. 11pp. (ADS Harvard College Observatory Papers v1 p930-940) (funding etc.)

Pickering, Edward. Possibility of Errors in Scientific Research due to Thought Transference. American Society of Psychical Research 1 (n.d.) 35-43. (Report of Thought Transference Committee.) (ADS Harvard College Observatory Papers v1 pp902-910)

Pickering, Edward. Report on the 15 Inch Equatorial. (pages 15-19, Appendix A: Annual Report of the Director of Harvard College Observatory, presented to the Visiting Committee, Nov. 26, 1877.) (ADS Harvard College Observatory Papers v1, pp44-48) (photometer. report not useful)

Pickering, Edward. The Wedge Photometer. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 17 (May 10, 1882) 231-233. (ADS Harvard College Observatory Papers v1, pp438-440)

Pickering, Edward. Work for Large Telescopes. Jan. 11, 1893. 3pp. (ADS Harvard College Observatory Papers v2 pp306-308)

(Pickering, E.C.) Bailey, Solon. Edward Charles Pickering 1846-1919. Astrophysical Journal 50:4 (Nov. 1919) 233-244.

(Pickering, E.C.) Campbell, W.W. Obituary Notice of Edward Charles Pickering. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 31 (April 1919) 73-76.

(Pickering, E.C.) Plotkin, Howard. Pickering, Edward Charles. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-01309.html Nov 25 2003.

Pickering, W.H. The Harvard Observatory in Peru. Harvard Graduates' Magazine, March 1894. 7pp. (ADS Harvard College Observatory Papers v2 pp382-392)

Pickering, William. Reflectors versus Refractors. Popular Astronomy 38 (1930) 134-144.

Pickering, W.H. (edited) W.H. Pickering and the Markings on Mars. The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 27:9 (Nov. 1933) 363-364.

Pidgley, Michael. Cornelius Varley, Cotman, and the Graphic Telescope. Burlington Magazine 114 (Nov. 1972) 781-786.

Pigatto, Luisa & Valeria Zanini. Spectroscopic observations of the 1874 transit of Venus: the Italian party at Muddapur, eastern India. Journal of Astronomical History & Heritage 4:1 (2001) 43-58. (Starke 117mm/1.65m eq. refr.; Steinheil 162mm/2.6m parallactic refr.; Fraunhofer 117mm/1.95m parallactic refr.; Starke 117mm/1.95m alt-az; Dollond 95mm; Repsold transit. telespectroscope p47-48)

Pigott, C.K. How I Made a Tolles Eyepiece. Journal of the British Astronomical Association 98:1 (Dec. 1987) 49-50.

Pittard, Julian. Enigmatic Eta Carinae. Astronomy & Geophysics 44:1 (Feb. 2003) 17-22.

Pitter Gauge and Precision Tool Co. Optical Surface-Finish Meter. Journal of Scientific Instruments. 22:8 (August 1945) 155-156.

Plakidis, S. Astronomy in Greece during the war. The Observatory 66 (1946) 298-299.

Plaskett, J.S. The History of Astronomy in British Columbia. Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 77 (June 1983) 108-120.

Plaskett, J.S. The Optical Parts of the Victoria Spectrograph. Astrophysical Journal 59 (March 1924) 65-75. (G.W. Moffitt, F. Ross, Brashear, McDowell)

Plaskett, J.S. Sixty Years' Progress in Astronomy. Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 21 (Oct. 1927) 295-310.

Plaskett, J.S. Solar Eclipse, pp213-235, Appendix 5. Observatory Building and Instrumental Equipment, pp199-211, Appendix 4. Report of the Chief Astronomer for the Year Ending June 30, 1905. Ottawa, 1906.

Plaskett, J.S. The Stellar Spectrograph of the 72-inch Reflecting Telescope. Astrophysical Journal 49 (May 1919) 209-223.

Plaskett, Thomas S.. The History of the Plaskett Family. Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 82: 6 (Dec. 1988) 319-327. Broughton, Peter. An Introduction to the Following Paper. pp317-318.

(Plaskett) Sanford, Roscoe. John Stanley Plaskett, 1865-1941. Astrophysical Journal 98 (Sept. 1943) 137-141.

Plotkin, Howard. Astronomers versus the Navy: The Revolt of American Astronomers over the Management of the United States Naval Observatory, 1877-1902. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 122:6 (Dec. 18, 1978) 385-399.

Plotkin, Howard. Edward C. Pickering and the Endowment of Scientific Research in America, 1877-1918. Isis 69:1 (March 1978) 44-57.

Plotkin, Howard. Edward Pickering, the Henry Draper Memorial, and the Beginnings of Astrophysics in America. Annals of Science 35:4 (July 1978) 365-377.

Plotkin, Howard. Henry Tappan, Franz Brunnow, and the Founding of the Ann Arbor School of Astronomers, 1852-1863. Annals of Science 37:3 (May 1980) 287-302.

Plummer, H.C. Address Delivered by the President, Professor H.C. Plummer, on The Development of the Vertical Telescope. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 101 (1941) 165-172.

Plummer, H.C. The Cassegrain telescope as a thick lens. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 101 (1941) 345-348.

Plummer, H.C. Jeremiah Horrocks and his Opera Posthuma. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 3 (1940) 39-52.

Plummer, H.C. Notes on the Coelostat and Siderostat. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 65 (1905) 487-501.

Plummer, H.C. Note on the Geometry of the Siderostat. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 61 (1901) 459-462.

(Plummer, Henry Crozier Keating) Obituary. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 107 (Feb. 1947) 56-59.

Pogson, Norman. Observations of the Fixed Stars made with the Meridian Circle at the Government Observatory, Madras, in the years 1862, 1863, and 1864. Madras, 1887. viii-xi, The Meridian Circle. (Stancliff transit 1793. Troughton altitude-azimuth 1793. Dollond 5 foot transit, 4 inch objective, 1830. Dollond 4 foot mural circle, 4 inch objective, 1830. Troughton & Simms transit circle, 42 inch circle, 5.5 inch objective, 1858; with a Bohnenberger's eyepiece for determination of nadir point and level error. Browning 9 inch silvered glass reflector. Dollond 3.5 inch portable equatorial. Troughton & Simms 8 inch equatorial. Lerebours & Secretan 6 inch equatorial.)

Pohl, Hans Joachim. The contribution of Jena Glas to the development of optical precision manufacture in Jena. Jena Review 2 (1984) 58-62.

(Polishing of Telescopical Glasses by a Turn-Lathe) Extracts of Three Letters;....The Third, Written from Paris, about the Polishing of Telescopical Glasses by a Turn-Lathe; As Also the Making of an Extraordinary Burning-Glass at Milan. Louys de Bills; Richard Stafford. Philosophical Transactions 3 (1668) 791-796. (no details)

Pollard, Alan. The mechanical construction of the microscope from a historical stand-point, with special reference to certain instruments now in the Science Museum, South Kensington. Transactions of the Optical Society 23:5 (June 1922) 334-349.

Pollard, A.F.C. Notes upon the mechanical design of some instruments shown at the Exhibition of the Physical and Optical Societies, 1927. Journal of Scientific Instruments 4:7 (April 1927) 217-222. (p220, C.T.S. theodolite telescope objective cell)

Pollard, A.F.C. Optical and allied instruments. Physical Society's 26th Exhibition. Journal of Scientific Instruments 13:2 (February 1936) 64-71.

(Pomona College Observatory) Publication of the Astronomical Society of Pomona College 2:2 (Jan. 1913) 37-59.

Pompea, Stephen M., Peter G.K. Kahn & Roger B. Culver. Paleoastronomy and nautiloid growth: a perspective. Vistas in Astronomy 23:3 (1979) 185-205.

Pompeaa, Stephen M., Richard N. Pfistererb, and Jeffrey S. Morganc. A Stray Light Analysis of the Apache Point Observatory 3.5-Meter Telescope System. SPIE. http://www.apo.nmsu.edu/Telescopes/eng.papers/SPIEpapers/0902straylight.pdf Jan. 2004.

Pond, John. Continuation of a Former Paper on the Twenty-Five Feet Zenith Telescope Lately Erected at the Royal Observatory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 125 (1835) 145-151.

Pond, John. A Letter from John Pond, Esq. Astronomer Royal, to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. President of the Royal Society, Relative to a Derangement in the Mural Circle at the Royal Observatory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 112 (1822) 86-88.

Pond, John. On the Parallax of the Fixed Stars. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 107 (1817) 158-175, 353-362.

Pond, John. Some Suggestions Relative to the Best Method of Employing the New Zenith Telescope Lately Erected at the Royal Observatory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 124 (1834) 209-212.

Poor, Charles Lane. A possible form of mirror for reflecting telescopes. Bulletin of the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago 5 (1897) 440-441. (section of parabola from rim, to reflect 90 degrees)

(Poor) Schaeberle, J.M. On the worthlessness of a proposed form of telescope. Astronomical Journal 18 (Nov. 1897) 87-88. (#419) Errata: 18 (Dec. 1898) 104-104. (#421)

Porter, Albert B. Some Oddities in Lenses. Proceedings of The American Physical Society 20:6 (1905) 384-385. (Minutes of the 28th Meeting)

(Porter, J.) Osterbrock, Donald E. Porter, Jermain Gildersleeve. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-01318.html Nov 25 2003.

Porter, Jonathan. The Scientific Community in Early Modern China. Isis 73:4 (Dec. 1982) 529-544.

Portolano, Marlana. John Quincy Adams's Rhetorical Crusade for Astronomy. Isis 91:3 (September 2000) 481-503. (.pdf)

Poser, Max. Some new optical instruments. Transactions of the Optical Society 13 (1911) 23-28. (Zeiss surveyor's level) p28, H.A. Hughes, Demonstration of new compass and sextant.

Postl, Anton. Correspondence between Kepler and Galileo. Vistas in Astronomy 21:4 (1977) 325-330.

Potter, Elena. The Set of Brochures on Comets in the Pulkovo Observatory Library. pp363. Library and Information Services in Astronomy IV July 2-5, 2002, Prague, Czech Republic. http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/libraries/lisa4/Potter.pdf

Powell, Thomas. Elementa opticae. Londini: Ex typographéo J. Grismond, 1651. 67pp. T.P.: 1608-1660. Latin. telescope: p41, 97.

Power, Henry. Experimental philosophy, in three books. London: Printed by T. Roycroft, for John Martin and James Allestry, 1664. [24], 191, [2] p. [1] folded leaf of plates.

Poynting, J.H. Historical Note on the Parallel Plate Double-Image Micrometer. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 53 (1893) 330.

Poynting, J.H. The Parallel Plate Micrometer. p79. The Proceedings of the Optical Convention, Held at the Northampton Institute, London, E.C., May 30th to June 3rd, 1905. No. I, London, 1905. London: Norgate & Williams, 1905. (Porro)

Preston, F.W. The nature of the polishing operation. Transactions of the Optical Society 27:3 (February 1926) 181-190.

Preston, F.W. On the properties of pitch used in working optical glass. Transactions of the Optical Society 24:3 (February 1923) 117-142.

Preston, F.W. The structure of abraded glass surfaces. Transactions of the Optical Society 23:3 (February 1922) 141-164.

Preston, Richard. The Accuracy of the Astronomical Observations of Lewis and Clark. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 144:2 (June 2000) 168-191.

Price, Derek J. deSolla. Of Sealing Wax and String. Natural History 93 (1984) 49-56.

(Price) Turner, G. L'E. Obituary, Derek John de Solla Price. Annals of Science 41 (1984) 105-107.

Price, William H. Photographic Lens. Scientific American 235 (Aug. 1976) 72.

Prickard, A.O. The 'Mundus Jovialis' of Simon Marius. The Observatory 39 (Sept. 1916) 367-381.

Prickard, A.O. Note on 'Simon Marius' and 'Mundus Jovialis'. The Observatory 40 (March 1917) 119-122.

Pringle, John. Several Accounts of the Fiery Meteor, Which Appeared on Sunday the 26th of November, 1758, between Eight and Nine at Night. Philosophical Transactions 51 (1759-1760) 218-259.

Pringle, John. Some Remarks upon the Several Accounts of the Fiery Meteor (Which Appeared on Sunday the 26th of November, 1758), and upon Other Such Bodies. Philosophical Transactions 51 (1759-1760) 259-274.

Pritchard, C. On the intensity of the images of stars as affected by wire-gauze screens placed before object-glasses. The Observatory 15 (Feb. 1892) 106-108.

(Pritchard's Wedge Photometer) Memoirs of the American Academy 11(Nov. 10, 1886) 301-325. S.P. Langley, C.A. Young, & E.C. Pickering, Pritchard's Wedge Photometer, p301. C.A. Young, Some Photometric Observations with the Pritchard Wedge pp302-304. S.P. Langley, Measurements of the Transmission of the Pritchard Wedge pp305-325, illustration wedge p306. (ADS Harvard College Observatory Papers v3, pp970-993)

Proctor, Richard Anthony. Old and new astronomy. London : Longmans, Green, 1888. 704p. http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N095019 (Gallica ends p704, text continues)

Pruett, J. Hugh. Testing the Focal Lengths of Telescopic Oculars. Sky & Telescope 3 (#36) (Oct. 1944) 16.

Ptolemy. The compost of Ptolomeus, prince of astronomie. Printed at London: By M. P[arsons] for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold by E. Wright, 1638.

Ptolemy. Here begynneth the compost of Ptholomeus, prynce of astronomye: translated oute of Frenche in to Englysshe, for them that wolde haue knowlege of the compost by Ptolemy, 2nd cent. London: Imprynted by me Robert Wyer, dwellynge at the sygne of seynt Iohn Euangelyste, in seynt Martyns Parysshe in the Felde, in the bysshop of Norwytche rentes, besyde Charyng crosse, 1530.

Publications of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Michigan. Vol. 1, 1912, 1915. pp3-34, William J. Hussey, A General Account of the Observatory. pp37-53, Ralph H. Curtiss, The Single Prism Spectrograph of the Detroit Observatory. pp77-83, W.J. Hussey & R.H. Curtiss, Miscellaneous Observatory Notes. p83, R.H. Curtiss, Silvering Mirrors at Low Temperatures.

Publications and Photographic Illustrations Issued by the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. First edition. Cambridge: John Wilson, 1893. 6pp. (Table of contents for Annals) (ADS Harvard College Observatory Papers v2 p196-203)

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Purtle, Helen. History of the Microscope. pp. x-xviii. Helen Purtle & John Ey, editors. The Billings Microscope Collection of the Medical Museum, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Second Edition. Washington, D.C.: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1974, reprinted 1987.

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Quirrenbach, A. Adaptive Optics with Laser Guide Stars: Basic Concepts and Limitations. from: Ageorges & Dainty, ed. Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics for Astronomy. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000. (.pdf)

Quirrenbach, Andreas. Optical Interferometry. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 39 (2001) 353-401.

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Rafert, J.B.; Oswalt, T.D., et al. The Florida Institute of Technology Automatic Photometric Telescopes. International Amateur-Professional Photoelectric Photometry Communication #42 (Dec. 1990) 11-17. (25 in. Air Force mirror, FIT telescope)

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Rayleigh, Lord. On the Aberration of Sloped Lenses and on Their Adaptation to Telescopes of Unequal Magnifying Power in Perpendicular Directions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A 81 (July 30, 1908) 26-40. (#544)

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Richardson, Robert S. Captain Thomas Hubbard Sumner, 1807-1876. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 55 (#324) (June 1943) 136-144.

Richardson, R.S. If You Were on Mars. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Leaflets 4 (1943) 214-221. (equatorial telescope axis to 21 RA, 54 dec)

Richardson, R.S. Illusion and Reality in the Universe. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Leaflets 3 (1940) 325-332.