Peter Abrahams Portland, Oregon. e-mail: telscope@europa.com abrahams.peter@gmail.com Unaffiliated writer on the history of optical instruments. Web page: The history of the telescope and the binocular. http://www.europa.com/~telscope/binotele.htm Member: Sigma Xi, Scientific Instrument Society, National Coalition of Independent Scholars, Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society. 2001-2003 President, Antique Telescope Society. 2000-2005 President, Rose City Astronomers, Portland, Oregon. 2000-2005 Secretary, Columbia-Willamette Chapter 112, Sigma Xi. 2007-2009 Vice President, Antique Telescope Society ================================ Publications, chrononological: A Museum of Teaching Instruments in Oregon. Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Enterprise 7:4 (August 1993) 111-113. Henry Fitz, American Telescope Maker. Journal of the Antique Telescope Society 6 (Summer 1994) 6-10. The History of Telescope Making. Amateur Telescope Making Journal 8 (1996) 15-17. The Early History of Binoculars. Amateur Telescope Making Journal 9 (1997) 35-36. Rangefinders and Stereo Telescopes. Amateur Telescope Making Journal 11 (1998) 26-27. A Single Tube Binocular Newtonian. Amateur Telescope Making Journal 14 (1999) 44-47. Translation of foreign language texts. The Independent Scholar 13:4 (Fall 1999) 2-3. John Mudge on mirror making, 1777. Amateur Telescope Making Journal 16 (2000) 21-23. A Brief Biography of Robert W. Wood. Optics & Photonics News 15:7 (July 2004) 21. Telescopes Lofted to Space: An Historical Chronology. pp203-214. The New Astronomy, Opening the Electromagnetic Window and Expanding Our View of Planet Earth: A Meeting to Honor Woody Sullivan on his 60th Birthday. Edited by Wayne Orchiston. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005. The Early Observatory Telescopes of Carl Zeiss. Zeiss Historica 28:1 (Spring 2006) 8-18. The Telescopes of William Lassell (1799-1880). pp87-92. East and West: The Common European Heritage. Proceedings of the XXV Scientific Instrument Symposium. Kracow: Jagiellonian University Museum, 2006. When an Eye is armed with a Telescope: The Dioptrics of William and Samuel Molyneux. pp229-246. Juergen Hamel & Inge Keil, ed. Der Meister und die Fernrohre: Das Wechselspiel zwischen Astronomie und Optik in der Geschichte. Festschrift zum 85. Geburtstag von Rolf Riekher. Frankfurt: Verlag Harri Deutsch, 2007. ============ Unpublished translations, in collaboration with Ilse Roberts: About New Kinds of Telescopes, Especially for Handheld Use. Lectures held at the sessions of the Society for Advancement of Industrial Activity, 1895. Siegfried Czapski, Carl Zeiss, Jena. "Ueber neue Arten von Fernrohren, insbesondere fuer den Handgebrauch". Central-Zeitung fuer Optik und Mechanik (Journal for Optics and Mechanics), Berlin, Feb. 1, 1896 A New Telescope Eyepiece with Extremely Large Field of View. Horst Kohler, Oberkochen. "Ein neues Fernohrokular". Optik 17 (1960), pp. 500-509 Telescopes and Rangefinders. A. Koenig, Zeiss Works. "Die Fernrohre und Entfernungsmesser". Berlin, Springer Publishing, 1923, pp52-70, 85-100. The Judging of Fieldglasses. Roland Leinhos, Zeiss Works. "Zur Beurteilung von Feldstechern". Zeiss Werkzeitschrift, 7 (1959), p.78-83 Characteristic marks on the optical apparatus of the Army. Gerd Lensing. "Kennzeichnung von optischem Geraet der Wehrmacht". Mitteilungen fur Freunde und Forderer, Museum fuer historische Wehrtechnik e.V. Nurnberg, Ausgabe 15, (1987), pp. 29-31. Straight-sighted Binocular Prism Systems, with little or no offset in the optical axis. R. Liebmann; Carl Zeiss, Oberkochen. "Geradsichtige Feldstecher-Prismenumkehrsysteme ohne oder mit nur geringem Achversatz". Optik 26 (1967), pp264-272 Hand telescopes after 1800. Rolf Rieker. "Die Handfernrohre nach 1800". Fernrohre und Ihre Meister, 1990, chapter 12, pp. 238-249. The Zeiss Field Glass. Friedrich Schomerus. "Der Zeiss-Feldstecher". Geschichte des Jenaer Zeisswerkes 1846-1946, 1952, Pages 86-92, Terrestrial Telescopes, and Especially Prism Telescopes. Page 177, Zeiss and Bausch & Lomb. Pages 241-3, The Zeiss Field Glass. 'Field-piercers': Field Glasses in the Course of Time. Hans Seeger. "Feldstecher: Fernglaser im Wandel der Zeit". 1989, pp. 1-149. Military Binoculars and Telescopes for Land, Air and Sea Service. Hans Seeger. "Militaerische Fernglaeser und Fernrohre". 1996, pp. 31-39, 83-110, 115- 119, 185-200, 281-299, 311-336. Field Glass Rarities from the Optical Museum of Jena. Helga Beez, Jena; and Hans Seeger, Hamburg. Offprint from Deutsche Optikerzeitung, Heidelberg, No. 9, 10, 11, (1993). The Binoculars Moritz von Rohr. "Die Doppelfernrohre". Die Binokularen Instrumente, 1920, pp 88-94. ============ Presentations. 2003. Telescopes for solar research; from Scheiner's Helioscopium to De la Rue's Photoheliograph. Historical Astronomy Division, American Astronomical Society. 2004. Transits of Venus, 1761 and 1769 (poster). Historical Astronomy Division, American Astronomical Society. 2004. Telescopes Lofted to Space: An Historical Chronology. The New Astronomy; a meeting to honor Woody Sullivan on his 60th birthday, University of Washington. 2004. The Telescope in Japan, 1600-1900. Scientific Instrument Commission, Dresden. 2005. The Mount Wilson Optical Shop during the Second World War (poster). Historical Astronomy Division, American Astronomical Society. 2005. The Early Observatory Telescopes of Carl Zeiss. Historical Astronomy Division, American Astronomical Society. 2006. Astronomical Influences of Henry Hindley, Clockmaker in 18th Century York, England. Historical Astronomy Division, American Astronomical Society. 2006. The Telescopes of William Lassell. Scientific Instrument Commission, Kracow. 2007. Astronomical Instruments of Ignazio Porro (1801-1875). Historical Astronomy Division, American Astronomical Society. ===============