TurnerG. L'E., “James Short, FRS, and his contribution to the construction of reflecting telescopes”, Notes & records of the Royal Society, xxiv (1969), 91–108.
2.
For Finlayson, see BrydenD. J., “Three Edinburgh microscope makers: John Finlayson, William Robertson and John Clark”, The book of the Old Edinburgh Club, xxxiii (1972), 165–76; and for others, see StimsonA., “The influence of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich upon the design of 17th and 18th century angle-measuring instruments at sea”, Vistas in astronomy, xx (1976), 123–30. See especially, Fig. 18.4, p. 130, where the serial numbers are plotted against date. There are other instrument-makers who used plain numbers.
3.
TurnerG. L'E., “The auction sale of Larcum Kendall's workshop, 1790”, Antiquarian horology, v (1967), 269–75.
4.
CourtThomas H. & von RohrMoritz, “A history of the development of the telescope …”, Transactions of the Optical Society, xxx (1928–29), 207–60, p. 224. The final number is printed as 48, an obvious error for 480.
5.
Reproduced in Turner, op. cit. (ref. 1), plate 11 opposite p. 99. For a curve of the rate of production of five models made by Short, see TurnerG. L'E., “The London trade in scientific instrument-making in the 18th century”, Vistas in astronomy, xx (1976), 173–82, p. 178.
6.
Often found bound in at the back of George Adams, Essays on the Microscope; … (London, 1787).
7.
National Maritime Museum Greenwich, 00/Rf9/37-179C; Science Museum, London, 1911–256; Whipple Science Museum, Cambridge, accession 83; and a private collection.
8.
See Nairne's advertisement listing a complete range of goods reproduced as Plate 35 in CalvertH. R., Scientific trade cards in the Science Museum collection (London, 1971).
