Re: [ATM] Books???

["James Sturtevant" <jhsturte@hotmail.com>]

>From: "Norm Prince" <norman.prince@verizon.net>

>Okay so i want to buy a couple more books about telescope making and
>such...to go with my lonely copy of N.E. Howards "Standard Handbook for
>Telescope Making".
>
>So the Question is if i could buy 2 books...just 2 books...what 2 would 
>yall
>list folk recommend?
>
>-norm-

    The gold standard in ATM books is generally considered to be Texereau.  
I have a copy.  It is good. I've never been able to work up much in the way 
of warm and fuzzy feelings for this book, but maybe it's just me.

     The ATM book that I have enjoyed the most and that I have probably 
consulted more than any other is Sam Brown's "All About Telescopes".  The 
copy I have is very old and full of plugs for products from Edmund 
Scientific, the original publisher.  Brown's illustrations are quaintly old 
fashioned and the text sometimes sounds like a scoutmaster coaching a merit 
badge candidate but Old Sam knew his optics and the book is full of tables 
and advice that you will find nowhere else.  I think that someone (Willmann 
Bell?) bought the rights to the book but I don't know if new copies are 
still available.

Jim Sturtevant

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