Talk:Amateur Telescope Making

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It was great fun researching and writing this article. Still, I came away with many unanswered questions about these fascinating and influential books. Here's one: Does anyone have access to the earlier editions of Vol. 1 (ca. 1926-1928) which contained the "lost" chapters, which were deleted in later editions? If so, that would be great information to include here. GHJmover (talk) 13:16, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

POV statements[edit]

Ingalls's philosophy of telescope making remained dominant in the U.S. until the late 1960's, when John Dobson and others began to popularize the construction of large reflectors of low optical and mechanical sophistication, based on standardized designs and cheap, pre-fabricated components.^[1]

Moved above to talk since it seems to be the POV of the editor adding it. Ref is very unclear as to what statement it is even supporting; "philosophy... dominant... until the late 1960's"?, or "(Dobsonians have) low optical and mechanical sophistication... (and) cheap, pre-fabricated components". As such, supporting text from ref should be excerpted to this talk. A single ref (point of view) does not cut it per WP:YESPOV. Statement on dobsonians also does not pass a logic test - see Talk:Dobsonian telescope#"By definition...". Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 20:48, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Kriege, David; Berry, Richard (1997). The Dobsonian Telescope: A Practical Manual for Building Large Aperture Telescopes. Willmann-Bell. ISBN 9780943396552.

[Kriege-1] Kriege, David; Berry, Richard (1997). The Dobsonian Telescope: A Practical Manual for Building Large Aperture Telescopes. Willmann-Bell. ISBN 9780943396552.

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