Papers, etc.

Papers are at the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. There is considerable correspondence in the Mary Lea Shane Archives of Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz library.

Other References: Historical

Doel, Ronald E., Solar System Astronomy in America: Communities, Patronage, and Interdisciplinary Science, 1920-1960 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1996).

Einarsson, Sturla, “Astronomy,” in Stadtman, Verne, ed., Centennial Record of the University of California (Univ. of California Printing Dept., Berkeley, 1967). University of California History Digital Archives
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/general_history/campuses/ucb/departments_a.html#astronomy

Lankford, John, American Astronomy: Community, Careers, and Power, 1859-1940 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997) [excerpt].

Leuschner, A.O., “History and Aims of the Students’ Observatory,” PASP 16, 68-77 (1904).

Osterbrock, Donald E., “Armin Leuschner and the Berkeley Astronomical Department,” Astronomy Quarterly 7, 95-115 (1990). [Abstract appears in PASP 101, 881 (1989).]

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Other References:Scientific

Leuschner, A.O., “Determination of the Relation between the Exposure-Time and the Consequent Blackening of a Photographic Film,” PASP 2, 7-14 (1890).

Leuschner, A.O., “Note on the Predictions Regarding the Transit of Halley’s Comet, 1910 May 18,” Astronomical Journal 26, 135 (1910).

Leuschner, A.O., “A Short Method of Determining Orbits from Three Observations,” Pubs. Lick Obs. 7, 1-20 (1914); 7, 217-376 (1914); 7, 455-83 (1914). See also Crawford, Russell Tracy, “Application of Leuschner’s Method of Direct Solution of Orbits of Disturbed Bodies,” Pubs. Lick Obs. 7, 487-503 (1914).

Leuschner, A.O., “The Derivation of Orbits, Theory and Practise,” Science 45, 571-84 (1917).

Leuschner, A.O., “Perturbations and Tables of the Minor Planets Discovered by James C. Watson,” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 5, 67-76 (1919).

Leuschner, A.O., “Comparison of Theory with Observation for the Minor planets 10 Hygiea and 175 Andromache with Respect to Perturbations by Jupiter,” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 8, 170-73 (1922).

Leuschner, Armin Otto, Anna Estelle Glancy and Sophia H. Levy, “Tables of Minor Planets Discovered by James C. Watson:, Pt. II.,” Sci. Memoirs Nat. Acad. Sci. 14, 3, 1-158 (1922).

Leuschner, A.O., “Celestial Mechanics: A Survey of the Status of the Determination of the General Perturbations of the Minor Planets,” Bull. Nat. Res. Council 4, 7, 1-73 (1922).

Crawford, R.T., A.O. Leuschner, & G. Merton, Determination of Orbits of Comets and Asteroids (McGraw-Hill, NY, 1930).

Esclangon, M.E., et al, “Object Lowell Observatory,” IAU Circ. 268 (1930) [early orbit of Pluto].

Leuschner, Armin Otto, The Minor Planets of the Hecuba Group, being the Halley Lecture Delivered on 16 June 1938 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK, 1939).

Leuschner, Armin Otto and Sophia Levy McDonald, “Tables of General Perturbations for a Group of Minor Planets which Includes the Group One-Half with Applications to Thirty-Four Cases,” Pubs. Lick Obs. 20, 1-210 (1952).

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Other Works: Popularizations, etc.

Leuschner, Armin O., “The Royal Astro-Physical Observatory of Potsdam,” PASP 4, 40-45 (1892)

Leuschner, A.O., “History and Aims of the Students’ Observatory,” PASP 15, 68-77 (1904).

Leuschner, A.O., “Preliminary Statistics on the Eccentricities of Comet Orbits,” PASP 19, 67-71 (1907).

Leuschner, A.O., “Recent Progress in the Study of the Motions of Bodies in the Solar System,” in The Adolfo Stahl Lectures in Astronomy (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 1919), pp. 174-207.

Leuschner, A.O., “The Astronomical Romance of Pluto,” PASP 44, 197 (1932).

Leuschner, A.O., “The Story of Andromache, an Unruly Planet,” PASP 48, 55-81 (1936) [public lecture on accepting the Bruce medal].