Volume 22, Number 1
1998

Editor's Page

A Thank-You to Supporters

The editor and trustees of Abbey Publications, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, are grateful for the support received from the people and organizations listed below, as well as from those who gave smaller amounts. Without their help, we could not make this Newsletter nearly as useful as it is.

All donations go toward publishing the Abbey Newsletter.

We have begun recording donations in a simpler and more efficient way. Instead of recording the names of people who gave during the previous 12 months, we now record names of donors who gave during the current year. So far this year we have received $2,709.

Donors are listed below as Sponsors ($500-$999), Patrons ($100-$499), and Contributors ($25-$99).

Ellen McCrady, Editor

Sponsors

Terry O. Norris

Patrons

Elizabeth S. Banks
Bark Frameworks
Sally A. Buchanan
Estate of Edwin Porter Garretson (in honor of Susan Swartzburg)
Mair and David La Touche
New York Community Trust
Roberta S. Pilette
Isamu Sakamoto
Tamara Swora (in memory of Susan Swartzburg)
University Products, Inc.

Contributors

Jane Dalrymple-Hollo
Hilary A. Kaplan
William Minter
Lily Powell-Froissard
Deborah J. Wender

Corrections

• Barbara Simmons also sent a nice letter, to correct a statement in the "People" column of the last issue, where Joan Warnow-Blewett was credited with writing a book, Appraising the Records of Modern Science and Technology: A Guide (MIT, 1985). Actually, the book's authors are Joan Krizack Haas, Helen Willa Samuels and Barbara Trippel Simmons.
• Virginia Wright, at the Corning Museum of Glass, has gently corrected a misstatement on p. 123 of the last issue, where it says that "Hooke invented the compound microscope." She enclosed a few pages about the early history of the microscope, from Brian J. Ford's Single Lens: The Story of the Simple Microscope (1985) "to put Hooke in his proper place.

  Hooke was born in 1635, but the idea of a compound optical magnifier (apparently for use as a telescope) had been explained by Fracastoro of Verona in his Homocentrica as early as 1535. The invention of the compound microscope proper has traditionally been attributed to Zacharias Janssen of Middelburg. Although Janssen was too young in 1590, the supposed date of the invention, to have invented a microscope, 35 years later a fellow named Francesco Stelluti published a series of microscopic views of the honeybee--and Hooke had not even been born yet.

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