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Bulletin 170 September 2026
BULLETIN 170 – September 2026 Members of the SIS receive print copies of all Bulletins, as well as access to the complete Bulletin archive. In order to give website visitors a taste of the Bulletin, and to tempt you to join the SIS, the table of contents for the latest issue below contains selected articles…
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Folding Light, Unfolding History: An Object Biography of the Hofmann Telescope at the Deutsches Museum
Folding Light, Unfolding History: An Object Biography of the Hofmann Telescope at the Deutsches Museum By Luisa Lovisetti, University of Milan & INFN Milan, Italy A SIS Grant supports this research. A longer piece on this subject will feature in a future SIS Bulletin. Folding the Optical Path How could a terrestrial telescope be made…
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Humfrey Cole in Florida
Humfrey Cole in Florida By Stephen Johnston, History of Science Museum, University of Oxford A SIS Grant supports this research. A longer piece on this subject will feature in a future SIS Bulletin. It all began with a colleague’s recommendation to try a particular online image search engine, one that I had not heard of.1…