The Net Advance of Physics:
History and Philosophy: Sherburne Wesley Burnham

• An American Amateur Astronomer by John Fraser [The Century 38, 300 (1889)]
• Keepers of the Double Stars by Joseph S. Tenn [J. Astron. Hist. & Heritage 16, 81 (2013)]

• WORKS:
  • A General Catalogue of Double Stars Within 121° of the the North Pole by Sherburne Wesley Burnham Volume I: The Catalogue --- Volume II: Notes [Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1906]
  • Report to the Trustees of the James Lick Trust of Observations Made on Mt. Hamilton with Reference to the Location of Lick Observatory by Sherburne Wesley Burnham [Chicago: Knight & Leonard, 1880] With a romantic illustration of the mountain.
  • A General Catalogue of 1290 Double Stars by Sherburne Wesley Burnham [Chicago, 1900]
  • Measures of Double Stars with the 40-Inch Refractor of the Yerkes Observatory in 1900 and 1901 by Sherburne Wesley Burnham [Chicago, 1902]

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