ATM [History] Annals of Science, 1852-1854

["Matt Considine" <matt@considine.net>]

In advance of my spending a couple of days in two old libraries, 
Mel Bartels gave me a reference to the "Annals of Science" from 
the 1850's.

I was able to find the item he mentioned, as well as a few other 
things from that journal.  The publication had a rather short life 
under that name, existing only from Oct. 1852 to early 1854.  
Fortunately, that meant I could peruse the entire run for telescope-
related articles.  I found the following articles :
	Craig Telescope
	Composition for Silvering Glass
	Reflecting Telescopes, by H.L. Smith
	Achromatic Telescope
	Improvements of Astronomical Instruments, by M.J. Porro
	Conical Condenser, a Telescope Appendage
	a reference to a proposal to create a parabolic reflector out of 
		a rotating fluid, like mercury
	On the composition and Figuring of the Specula for Reflecting
		Telescopes, by Mr. Sollitt
	an account of the Earl of Rosse's telescope, by Rev. Scoresby

The article by Smith is in 6 parts and is essentially an 1850's 
version of "ATM."  At first glance, the Conical Condenser sounds 
like a focal reducer, but I didn't study the article that much.  And 
with respect to the fluid mirror, the editorial comment was "no 
advantage can be expected from fluid mirrors" because of the 
difficulty in making a plane mirror to see parts of the sky other than 
what's overhead.  The note about an Achromatic Telescope is just 
an observation that one had looked through a nice one.

I was able to get copies of all these articles (with the exception of 
the Craig telescope - just plain forgot about that, as it seemed to be 
just a description) and have scanned them in.  The whole shootin' 
match can be found at
	http://www.considine.net/aosnocraig.zip (4.5M)

Sorry about the size, but I've got so much stuff from the last two 
days, that it will take me forever to OCR it...

I hope it's helpful to someone.  I'll probably take the ZIP file offline in 
about a month, FWIW.

Regards,
Matt Considine

PS  If someone has a burning desire to see the table of contents 
for most of these issues, I can send that along.  But a few issues 
didn't have a TOC and some that had nothing of interest I skipped.
Volume 1 covered Oct. 1852 to Dec. 1853.  Vol 2 seemed to cover 
Jan-Mar 1854, IIRC