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Bibliographic Citations

Barlow, Boris V. The Astronomical Telescope. London and New York: Wykeham Publications Ltd., 1975.

Bennett, J. A. Church, State and Astronomy in Ireland, 200 Years of Armagh Observatory. Belfast, Ireland: The Armagh Observatory, 1990.

———. The Divided Circle, a History of Instruments for Astronomy, Navigation and Surveying. Oxford: Phaidon- Christies Ltd., 1987.

Brück, Hermann A. The Story of Astronomy in Edinburgh From Its Beginnings Until 1975. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1983.

Danjon, André, and André Couder. Lunettes Et Télescopes, Théorie, Conditions D'Emploi, Description, Réglage. Paris: Editions de las revue d'optique théorique et instrumentale, 1935.

Dick, Steven J., and LeRoy E. Doggett. Sky With Ocean Joined. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Naval Observatory, 1983.

Dimitroff, George Z., and James G. Baker. Telescopes and Accessories. Philadelphia and Toronto: The Blakiston Company, 1945.

Howse, Derek. Greenwich Observatory, Volume 3: The Buildings and Instruments. London: Taylor and Francis, 1975.

Jones, Bessie Zaban, and Lyle Gifford Boyd. The Harvard College Observatory, the First Four Directorships, 1839–1919. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1971.

King, Henry C. The History of the Telescope. New York: Dover Publications, 1979.

Riekher, Rolf. Fernrohre Und Ihre Meister. Berlin: Veb Verlag Technik Berlin, 1957.

Van Helden, Albert, The Galileo Project

Whitsell, Patricia S., The Detroit Observatory

Young, Charles A. A Textbook of General Astronomy for Colleges and Scientific Schools. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1898.

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