Bulletin 109
Tuesday 26 July 2011

Appropriate material wil be referenced in Physics Abstracts

Editorial		1
Hooke’s Dream Lens, Maxwell’s Fish-eye, and Luneburg’s Sphere	Martin Beech	2
Old Astronomical Instruments on a Movie Set: the case of “The Leopard”	Ileana Chinnici and Donatella Randazzo	9
Current and Future Events		13
Lewisham to Oxford: The Elliott Archive and Instrument Collection	H.R. Bristow	14
Discovering the Azimuth Compass	Mike Cowham	16
Furttenbach Compendium 1644 – “ein Mechanische Reisladen”	Stuart Talbot, FRAS	19
Stop Press		21
A Mechanical Approximation to Kepler’s Problem	Tacye Phillipson	22
50th Annual Scientific Instrument Fair		25
A Short Life, But It Made Lasting Waves	Arend C. R. Ketelaar	26
Replica Leeuwenhoek Microscope at Museum Boerhaave	Paul Steenhorst	29
The ‘Leidenfrost’ Phenomenon: with some bizarre applications	Allan Mills	30
Book Reviews		33
The Use of Powered Machinery for Working Lenses in England: W. & T. Gilbert’s horse-mill at Woodford, Essex, c. 1828	D.J. Bryden	36
Beginners’ Page: A Brief History of the Telescope	John Lawrence	42
Call for Papers and Expressions of Interest		44