T. J. J. See and Mercurian Craters

T. J. J. See, Researches on the evolution of stellar systems, ii: The capture theory of cosmical evolution (Lynn, Mass., 1910), 350, 418.

There is at least one other pie-Mariner, post-See report of a lunar-like Mercury from B. Lyot's photographic observations at the Pic du Midi in 1942. See Dollfus A. , “Visual and photographic studies of the planets at the Pic du Midi”, in Kuiper G. P. and Middlehurst B. M. (eds), The solar system: Planets and satellites (Chicago, 1961), iii, 534–71. Note particularly Plate 3 in this paper which shows composite prints of photographs of Mercury with faintly circular features.

Young A. T. , “Mercury's craters from Earth”, Icarus, xxxiv (1978), 208–9.

Baum R. M. , “Historical sighting of the craters of Mercury”, Journal of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, xxviii (1979), 17–22.

Lankford J. , “A note on T. J. J. See's observations of craters on Mercury”, Journal for the history of astronomy, xi (1980), 129–32.

T. J. J. See, “Researches on the diameter of Mercury”, Astronomische Nachrichten, no. 3737 (1901), 257–70.

Publications of the U.S. Naval Observatory, 2nd ser., vi (1911), pp. A75–79.

T. J. J. See, “Origin of the lunar terrestrial system by capture, with further considerations on the theory of satellites and on the physical cause which has determined the directions of the rotations of the planets about their axes”, Astronomische Nachrichten, no. 4343 (1909), 379–80; see also Popular astronomy, xviii (1910), 106–10.

Baum , op. cit., 17.

Ibid., 18–20.

Lankford , op. cit., ref. 16.

See, for examples, Henkel F. W. , “New ideas in planetary evolution”, The observatory, xxxiii (1910), 242–6; Stratton F. J. M. , “Dr. See's researches on cosmogony”, ibid., xxxiv (1911), 347–9; Nolke Fr. , “Uber Sees kosmogonische Untersuchungen”, Astronomische Nachrichten, no. 4374 (1910), 81–90; Doolittle E. , “Dr. See's new theory of stellar and planetary evolution”, Popular astronomy, xix (1911), 35–42; and Moulton F. R. , “Capture theory and capture practice”, ibid., xx (1912), 67–82.