[ATM] A historic glass pusher

[Francis J. O'Reilly]

Thank you Dominic.

I was off by about 100 years. I believe that you are right in the time 
frame. A quick Google search based on your insught revealed a little more 
information about this early telescope maker.

I found a site referencing another TN. G. Parry Jenkins author of "A Plea 
for Reflecting Telescopes" who died in 1941.  In that article reportedly 
Jenkins recounts his association with Mr. With and others. I'll look for a 
copy of the article and share it if I can find it.

I just enjoy some of the history.

Francis J. O'Reilly (title omitted as it is not relevant to pushing glass)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dominic-Luc Webb" <dlwebb at canit.se>
To: "Francis J. O'Reilly" <foreilly at bestweb.net>
Cc: "ATM Superheros" <atm at atmlist.net>; <deena at bestweb.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: [ATM] A historic glass pusher


>
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Francis J. O'Reilly wrote:
>
>> Who was With?
>>
>> Ellison refers with high regard to a person named With, whose mirrors he
>> implies were some of the best ever made as of the time of his writing.
>
> There are publications from the late 1800's, maybe early 1900's
> by George H. With, I believe from place called Hereford, UK. I
> know of two articles I can offer in electronic form, but these
> are both very short and no mention about the optics used more
> than they were 8.5-12.25" Newts. There are some handmade drawings
> of a comet, and brief mention of the appearance of the Moon with
> an unsilvered speculum, but nothing revealing about the optics.
> The simplicity of the comments, limited publications and small
> size of the optics would be consistent with an amateur astronomer.
> His name appears in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
> Society without any title, but it was typical for this journal
> to specify essentially all titles an author possessed. This is
> also consistent with an amateur. On the other hand, I pretty much
> never specify my titles (I will not start today).
>
> Dominic-Luc Webb
>
>