References for the "Search for the Nebulae" by Kenneth Glyn Jones

  1. Halley, E., 'Of Nebulae and Lucid Spots among the Fixt Stars', Phil. Trans., 347, 390 (1715). [Available online.]
  2. De Mairan, J.-J., 'Traité Physique et Historique de l'Aurore Boréale', Mem. Acad. roy. des Sciences, 245-249, Paris, 1731. [Translation available online.]
  3. Derham, W., 'Observations of the Appearances among the Fix'd Stars ...', Phil. Trans., 428, 70-74 (1733). [Available online.]
  4. Maupertuis, P.L.M. de, 'Discours sur les different Figures des Astres ...', Mem. Acad. roy. des Sciences, 78-83 (1734).
  5. Bigourdan, G., Observations de Nébuleuses et d'amas Stellaires, Paris Annales (Observations) 1884, G.1-G.15, Paris, 1891.
  6. Maraldi, J.-D., 'Observations de la Comète qui a paru au mois d'Aout 1746', Mem. Acad. roy. des Sciences, 80-85, Paris (1756).
  7. Le Gentil, G.-J., 'Mémoire sur une Étoile Nébuleuse', Mem. de Math. et Phys. (Savans Étranger), II, 137-144 (1755).
  8. Lacaille; Abbé N.-L., 'Sur les Étoiles Nébuleuses du Ciel Australe', Mem. Acad. roy. des Sciences, 286-296 (1755). [Translation available online.]
  9. Messier, C., 'Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles ...', Mem. Acad. roy. des Sciences, 435-461 (1771). [Translation available online.]
  10. Le Gentil, G.-J., 'Remarques sur les Étoiles Nébuleuses', Mem. Acad. roy. des Sciences, 453-471, Pl. 21 (1759).
  11. Bode, J.E., 'Über einige neuentdeckte Nebelsterne und einem vollständigen Verzeichnisse der bisher bekannten', Astr. Jahrb. für 1779, 65-71, Berlin, 1777. [Translation available online.]
  12. Bode, J.E., Astr. Jahrb. für 1782, 155-157, Berlin, 1780. [Koehler's Catalog and addition to Bode's Catalog. Translation available online.]
  13. Messier, C., 'Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles', Conn. des Temps pour 1783, 225-249 and 408, Paris, 1780. [Translation available online.]
  14. Messier, C., 'Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles', Conn. des Temps pour 1784, 227-269, Paris, 1781. [Translation available online.]
  15. Bode, J.E., Astr. Jahrb. für 1786, 232-234, Berlin, 1784. [Translation available online.]
  16. Peters, C.H.F., and Knobel, E.B., Ptolemy's Catalogue of Stars, Carnegie Institute of Washington, Washington, 1915.
  17. Baily, F., 'Description of the Catalogues of Ptolemy, Ulugh Begh, Halley and Hevelius', Mem. roy. astr. Soc., XIII, 1843.
  18. Schjellerup, H.C.F.C., Descriptions des Étoiles Fixes ... par l'astronome Persan, Abd-al-Rachman al-Sûfi, St. Petersburg, 1874.
  19. Marius, S., Mundus Jovialis Anno MDCIX detectus ope Perspilli Belgici (Preface, p. 15), Johannes Laurus, Nuremburg, 1614.
  20. Bouillaud, I., Ismaelis Bullialdi ad Astronomos monita duo, Paris, 1667. [Also: Phil. Trans. XXII, p. 383 (1667). Part on M31 from PT available online, also whole paper.]
  21. Herschel, W., 'On nebulous stars properly so called', Phil. Trans., 531, 71-88 (1791).
  22. Carlos, E.S., The Siderial Messenger of Galileo Galilei, Rivingtons, London, 1880.
  23. Mem. Brit. astr. Ass. (Historical Section), 37, No. 3, 1956. [on Halley]
  24. Cassini, J., Éléments d'Astronomie, I, 77-79, Paris, 1740.
  25. Bevis, J., Atlas Céleste or Celestial Atlas, 1786 (unpublished). (British Museum, C21c.5. Purchased September 1875.)
  26. Bevis, J., Uranographia Britannica or an Exact View of the Heavens, 1818 (unpublished). (University Library, Cambridge; Adams Collection 1.81.1.)
  27. Allen, R.H., Star Names and their Meaning, 1899. Reprinted as Star Names, their Lore and Meaning, Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1963.
  28. Gingerich, O., 'Abbe Lacaille's List of Clusters and Nebulae', Sky Telesc., Feb. 1960, 207.
  29. Bode, J.E., Astr. Jahrb. für 1784, 181-182, Berlin, 1782. [Oriani's discoveries. Translation available online.]
  30. Bode, J.E., Astr. Jahrb. für 1782, 151-157, Berlin, 1780. [Koehler's catalog. Translation available online.]
  31. Gingerich, O., Messier and his Catalogue, I, Sky Telesc., Aug. 1953, 255. [Reprint: Mallas, J.H. and Kreimer, E., The Messier Album, 1978.]
  32. Gingerich, O., Messier and his Catalogue, II, Sky Telesc., Sept. 1953, 288. [Reprint: Mallas, J.H. and Kreimer, E., The Messier Album, 1978.]
  33. Gingerich, O., The Missing Messier Objects, Sky Telesc., Oct. 1960, 196. [Reprint: Mallas, J.H. and Kreimer, E., The Messier Album, 1978.]
  34. Garstang, R.H., The Messier Objects, Handbook, 1964, 63.
  35. Glyn Jones, K., Messier's Nebulae and Star Clusters, London, 1968. [Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1991.]
  36. Mallas, J.H., Letter to Sky Telesc., 83, Aug 1966.
  37. Thomas, O., Astronomie, Berlin, 1934.
  38. Parsons, W. (3rd Earl of Rosse), Scientific Papers, 115, Private pub., 1926.
  39. Flammarion, C., Bull. Soc. astr. France, 31-35, 1917-21.
  40. Shapley, H. and Davis, H., 'Messier's Catalogue', Publ. astr. Soc. Pacif., 29, 1917. [Also printed in The Observatory, Vol. 41.]
  41. Smyth, W.H., A Cycle of Celestial Objects, II, Oxford, 1898.
  42. Dreyer, J.L.E., New General Catalogue (Notes and Corrections, p. 283), Mem. roy. astr. Soc. (Reprint, 1962)
  43. Hogg, H.S., 'The Additional Messier Objects', J. roy. astr. Soc. Can. 41, nos. 7 and 8, 1947.
  44. D'Arrest, H.L., Siderum Nebulosorum Observationes Havniensis, Copenhagen, 1867.
  45. Lalande, J., Sur les Nebuleuses, Hist. Acad. roy. des Sciences, 80, 1771.
  46. Kirch, G., Ephemeridum Motuum Celestium ad Annum 1682, Appendix III, Leipzig, 1681.
  47. Glyn Jones, K., Sky Telesc., 156, Mar. 1967.
  48. Bayer, J., Uranometria, Nuremburg, 1603.
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