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Various
references sited by
Dr Duncan Steel
Reader in Space Technology
University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk/
physics/staff/d.i.steel/
Many
grateful thanks for all his excellent and helpful assistance.
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JBAA
in 1992 (volume 102, p.315) about the site of the Craig
Telescope.
Sky
& Telescope: July 1982, pp.12-13. A Roland Rainge
wrote a letter to S&T (p.72, July 1983) discussing
the telescope's possible resolving power.
Sir
David Brewster wrote several times about the Craig Telescope.
See:
(a) M.M.Gordon, The Home Life of Sir David Brewster,
2nd ed., Edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh, 1870, p.252.
(b) D.B., address to the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution
on 11 November 1851 (note 1851), as reprinted in "British
Eloquence of the Nineteenth Century", 1855.
(c) Major piece: D.B.'s "A Treatise on Optics",
Longman's, London, 1853, pp.506-508. This is the source
of the lithograph in Henry C. King's "History of
the Telescope."
(4)
Illustrated London News, 28 August 1852, p.168
(5)
ILN, 23rd October 1852, p.330: has a letter
from Craig. This follows on the article on 16th October
1852,
which had a sketch of Saturn as seen through the telescope.
(6)
The Times of 23rd August 1852 carried a longish article
about the telescope. This occasioned a letter (printed
in the edition of 25th August 1852) from Thomas Slater,
who says that he carried out the optical work. By 1858
Slater had an observatory set up in Euston Road, which
was said to contain the "largest refractor at present
in use in this kingdom" (ILN, ?? Oct 1858, volume
33, pp.387-388).
(7)
The "Annual of Scientific Discovery" for 1853
carries a long article about the Craig Telescope, on
pp.154-157. (edited by David A. Wells, Gould and Lincoln,
Boston, Mass.)
(8)
At the BAAS meeting in July 1851 it was said by the
Astronomer Royal (Airy) that Ross (not Rosse) was attempting
a lens of 2-feet diameter. This was Alexander Ross,
who built many fine refractors around that time &
had a major exhibit at the Exhibition of 1851. See:
Grant, History of Physical Astronomy, 1852, p.536; and
Presidential Address of Sir George Biddell Airy, Report
of the BAAS, 1851, p.41.
(9)
Harper's Book of Facts (NY, 1895) lists the Craig Telescope
as "very imperfect" under the heading "Telescopes",
but does not include it in the list of succeeding large
refractors under "Observatory."
(10)
The location of the Craig Telescope is described in
"Old and New London" (1893), p.482.
(11)
The death of John Craig's wife Jane Helena on 7th March
1854 is noted on p.446 of the Gentleman's Magazine,
volume XLI, Jan-June 1854.
(12)
The BAAS Reports for 1855 (note 1855) says that photographs
of the Craig Telescope were exhibited by Dr Lee (see
p.12). This is later than one might have expected (?).
(13)
The 4th Earl Spencer loaned the land for the Craig Telescope
to be built on. Lady Diana, Princess of Wales, was the
daughter of the 8th Earl Spencer.
(14)
Other places where the Craig Telescope was mentioned
include:
C. Piazzi Smythe, Transactions of the Roy Soc Edinburgh,
vol 23, p.371, 1861.
? von Jacquin, Athenaeum, II, p.924, 1852 (also in the
Revue Britanique).
G.A.Jahn, "Das Craig-Teleskop", Unterhaltungen
fur Dilettenten und Freunde der Astronomie, Geographie
und Witterungskunde, VI, p.332, 1852.
? Grover, Astronomical Register, VII, p.23, p.65, 1870.
? Burton, Astronomical Register, X, p.289, 1873.
H. Grubb, Trans. Irish Acad., I, #1, 1878.
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