Additional publications and lectures, 1949-1964
Scope and Contents
Contains: letter from Bernard Pagel, Royal Greenwich Observatory Archive to E.H. Linfoot, the Observatories, Madingley Road Cambridge, about the design of a Cassegrain spectrograph for the Isaac Newton Telescope, 5 May 1964; reprint of a paper by Herbert Dingle from The Bulletin of the Institute of Physics, pp. 314-316, December 1968 annotated [by Linfoot?] with an inserted note containing further calculations; an undated note on Ritchey Chrétien telescopes, containing a list of observatories with this model of telescope; annotated proof of 'On the Otpics of the Schmidt Camera' by E.H. Linfoot, c.1949, 18 pp.; manuscript draft of Telscope Optics (8 lectures), includes text of only one lecture on Newtownian telescopes (44 ff.).
Dates
- 1949-1964
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
1 folder(s) (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
General
This folder of material was found on WB3 Room 1, Case 1, 2 March 2018 and has been added to Add.8726. No further details of provenance for this material has yet been identified. Katrina Dean, 2 March 2018.
Creator
- From the Fonds: Linfoot, Edward Hubert, 1905-1982 (mathematician and astronomer) (Person)
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