Loading your reading…

On the Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope: Fifteen and a half inches in aperture, and its use in celestial photography — John Shaqi

On the Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope: Fifteen and a half inches in aperture, and its use in celestial photographyDraper, Henry

Science

On the Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope: Fifteen and a half inches in aperture, and its use in celestial photography

Name: On the Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope: Fifteen and a half inches in aperture, and its use in celestial photography
Author: Draper, Henry

Draper, Henry

Astronomical photography; Astronomy; Reflecting telescopes

---- ----               _Vice-President of the United States_.
  SALMON P. CHASE,        _Chief Justice of the United States_.
  RICHARD WALLACH,        _Mayor of the City of Washington_.
  LYMAN TRUMBULL,         _Member of the Senate of the United States_.
  WILLIAM P. FESSENDEN,       "     "       "     "       "     "
  GARRETT DAVIS,              "     "       "     "       "     "
  SAMUEL S. COX,          _Member of the House of Representatives U. S._
  JAMES W. PATTERSON,         "     "       "     "       "         "
  HENRY W. DAVIS,             "     "       "     "       "         "
  WILLIAM B. ASTOR,       _Citizen of New York_.
  THEODORE D. WOOLSEY,        "   _of Connecticut_.
  LOUIS AGASSIZ,              "   _of Massachusetts_.
        (Vacancy.)           ---- ----
  ALEXANDER D. BACHE,         "   _of Washington_.
  RICHARD DELAFIELD,          "   _of Washington_.




MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO OF THE INSTITUTION.


  ANDREW JOHNSON,         _President of the United States_.
  ---- ----               _Vice-President of the United States_.
  WILLIAM H. SEWARD,      _Secretary of State_.
  HUGH MCCULLOCH,         _Secretary of the Treasury_.
  EDWIN M. STANTON,       _Secretary of War_.
  GIDEON WELLES,          _Secretary of the Navy_.
  WILLIAM DENNISON,       _Postmaster-General_.
  JAMES SPEED,            _Attorney-General_.
  SALMON P. CHASE,        _Chief Justice of the United States_.
  DAVID P. HOLLOWAY,      _Commissioner of Patents_.
  RICHARD WALLACH,        _Mayor of the City of Washington_.




HONORARY MEMBER.


  JAMES HARLAN.           _The Secretary of the Interior_.




TABLE OF CONTENTS.[1]

  [1] Each memoir is separately paged and indexed.


                                                                   PAGE
  ARTICLE I. INTRODUCTION. Pp. 16.
      Advertisement                                                 iii
      List of Officers of the Smithsonian Institution                ix

  ARTICLE II. DISCUSSION OF THE MAGNETIC AND METEOROLOGICAL
      OBSERVATIONS MADE AT THE GIRARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY,
      PHILADELPHIA, IN 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, AND 1845.
      Third Section, comprising Parts VII, VIII, AND IX.
      VERTICAL FORCE. INVESTIGATION OF THE ELEVEN (OR TEN) YEAR
      PERIOD AND OF THE DISTURBANCES OF THE VERTICAL COMPONENT
      OF THE MAGNETIC FORCE, AND APPENDIX ON THE MAGNETIC EFFECT
      OF THE AURORA BOREALIS; WITH AN INVESTIGATION OF THE SOLAR
      DIURNAL VARIATION, AND OF THE ANNUAL INEQUALITY OF THE
      VERTICAL FORCE; AND OF THE LUNAR EFFECT OR THE VERTICAL
      FORCE, THE INCLINATION, AND TOTAL FORCE. By A. D. BACHE,
      LL. D., F. R. S., Mem. Corr. Acad. Sc. Paris; Prest. Nat.
      Acad. Sciences; Superintendent U. S. Coast Survey. Pp. 72.
      (Published May, 1864.)

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

On the Construction of a Silvered Glass Telescope: Fifteen and a half inches in aperture, and its use in celestial photography

No reviews yet