Cornell University has scans of Scientific American

March 9, 2007 | General | By: Mark VandeWettering

As part of Cornell Uniersity’s Making of America, they have scans of Scientific American from 1846-1869. Very nice, albeit with their rather obtuse and probably meaningless usage restrictions.

[tags]Public Domain,Scientific American[/tags]

Here’s the full page of an issue which describes Lord Rosse’s telescope (with the illustration below). Oops. That was a link to the gifcache. You’ll have to dig to find it again.

Lord Rosse's Telescope