Abstract
THE collaboration of MM. Danjon and Couder has resulted in a notable addition to astronomical literature. The volume under review is the best and most complete book on telescopes that has been written, and it will undoubtedly remain for a long time the standard work on the subject. M. Danjon is the director of the Strasbourg Observatory and a practical astronomer with wide experience; M. Couder, one of the astronomers at the Paris Observatory, is a skilled optician, who made the 81-cm. mirror and other optical parts of the reflector at the Forcalquier (Basses-Alpes) station of the Paris Observatory. The excellent photographs that are being obtained with this instrument are a sufficient testimony to the high quality of its optics. The authors were therefore particularly well qualified for their task.
Lunettes et télescopes:
theorie, conditions d'emploi, description, reglage. Par Andre Danjon et Andre Couder. Pp. xvi + 715 + 14 plates. (Paris: Editions de la Revue d'Optique theorique et instrumentale, 1935.) 100 francs.
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JONES, H. Lunettes et télescopes. Nature 138, 738–739 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138738a0
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