Re: [ATM] Guy Brandenberg's telescope making workshop

["Marc Fokker" <ptp@extel.xs4all.nl>]

Hi Francis,

I 'm much interested in those articles, but I 'm not able to receive those 
large articles by e-mail. Probably you can put those articles on a 
ftp-server or website, were anyone can retrieve them when they like.

Many thanks,

Marc Fokker

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francis J. O'Reilly" <foreilly@bestweb.net>
To: <atm@atmlist.net>
> I also went to the library of Congress and picked up a couple of articles, 
> both were in The Simthsonian Institution's series known as the 
> "Contributions to Knowledge" This series ran from 1848 until 1969 and is 
> now rare, but the information contained therein can be priceless. I 
> photocopied an article by the original Westchester Amateur Astronomer, and 
> first astrophotographer of the moon, Henry Draper M.D. entitled "On the 
> Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope Fifteen and a Half Inches in 
> Aperture and it's Use in Astrophotography" dated 1864, published in 1865, 
> when as it was noted, Andrew Johnson was the President of the United 
> States. The othjer article I copied is "On the Modern Reflecting Telescope 
> and the Making and Testing of Optical Mirrors" by George W. Ritchey, much 
> of which was reproduced in ATM volume 1.
>
> I can scan and e-mail these to anyone who would like to accept a Thirty 
> meg file. I may be able to mail some out if demand and postage costs are 
> not too outrageous.
>
> Best to all,
>
> Francis J. O'Reilly

_______________________________________________
ATM mailing list http://www.atmlist.net/