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Re: [ATM] Books
Tom,
Thank you for your kind assistance. Your link refers to Amateur Telescope
Making Vol. 1. I have a 1970 printing of this volume, which incorporates
much of Ellison's text.
I am looking for Ellison's original, "The Amateur's Telescope" to purchase
for purposes of my ATM library collection. Interestingly, earlier today I
was reading and came upon several earlier books on telescope making from
the late 19th century. I may try to find these as well.
Best regards to you and yours for the holiday season,
Francis J. O'Reilly
>
>Hi,
>There seems to be a copy here at the University of Oregon.
>(http://tinyurl.com/yg9sug)
>http://janus.uoregon.edu/search/?searchtype=t&searcharg=%22The+Amateur%27s
+Telescope%22&searchscope=8&SORT=D&search.x=34&search.y=8&search=search
>
>There is also an inter-library loan system that means you can most
>likely get the book delivered to a local library.
>(in North America anyway)
>
>
>
>
>Dominic-Luc Webb wrote:
>> Hi everyone, and of course, season's greetings regardless of your faith!
>>
>> In publishing my doctoral thesis, I got a little experience in dealing
>> with works that are long out of print. I wanted to include a figure
>> from a book published about 1850 and the publisher no longer existed,
>> but the library had the book. As it turned out, there is a "rule" that
>> books that have been out of print for more than 70 years can be copied
>> and even re-distributed. As regards my thesis, librarian scanned the
>> figure and a short excerpt. It may interest you to know how we dealt
with
>> citing this since the publisher does not any longer exist. If others
>> wanted to read for themselves from my original source to see that I had
>> correctly cited it, how would they do this? It turns out that the "rule"
>> is that you cite the specific library you found the work in, the date,
>> and the name of the librarian who scanned/copied it. It turned out that
>> credits/citations also go to the library that houses the book.
>>
>> Sadly, I cannot go to UC Berkeley libraries myself for a while (back
>> problems prevent me from flying at the moment), but if someone else
>> is willing to contact a librarian there, I think they should be able to
>> make some kind of arrangement as described above. Who knows, maybe this
>> book could end up as an online PDF.
>>
>>
>> Dominic-Luc Webb
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Richard Ozer wrote:
>>
>>> The only copy I've ever seen was at the UC Berkeley science library.
Not an easy book to find...
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Francis J. O'Reilly
>>> To: atm@atmlist.net
>>> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 7:37 PM
>>> Subject: [ATM] Books
>>>
>>>
>>> Group,
>>>
>>> I am looking for a copy of Rev. Ellison's work, "The Amateur's
Telescope"
>>> published in about 1920 and referred to by Ingalls in ATM volume 1.
Does
>>> anyone have a copy they would consider parting with? If so, or if you
know
>>> where I could find one, I am interested in purchasing the work. I
have an
>>> extensive ATM library and this would be a welcome addition.
>>>
>>> Regards and best wishes to all for the holidat season.
>>>
>>> Francis J. O'Reilly
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>--
> ... nice weather eh tomc@cs.uoregon.edu
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