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Pour en savoir davantage
* Brashear, John A. A Man Who Loved the Stars: The Autobiography of John A. Brashear, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. Première édition en 1924.
* Hearnshaw, J. B. The Analysis of Starlight, One Hundred and Fifty Years of Astronomical Spectroscopy, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
* Moore, A. D. « Henry A. Rowland », Scientific American, 246 (1982), p. 118-126.
Scoble, W. A. « The Blythswood Dividing Engine for Ruling Diffraction Gratings », National Physical Lab (UK) Collected Researches, 8 (1912), p. 216-251, plaques 1 et 2.
Plus techniques :
Babcock, Horace W. « Diffraction Gratings at the Mount Wilson Observatory », Vistas in Astronomy, 29 (1986), p. 153-174.
Brooks, Randall C. « Electron Micrographs of Spectroscopic Gratings » Rittenhouse, 17 (2003), p. 27-44.
Id., « Towards the Perfect Screw Thread: the making of precision screws in the 17th–19th centuries », Transactions of the Newcomen Soc., 64 (1993), p. 101-120.
Strong, John. « Rowland's Diffraction-Grating Art », Vistas in Astronomy, 29 (1986), p. 137-141.
Sweetnam, George Kean. The Command of Light: Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum, Philadelphia: American Phil. [?] Society, 2000.
Turner, G. L’E. « The Contribution to Science of Friedrich Adolph Nobert », Bull. Inst. of Physics & Physical Soc., 18 (1967), p. 338-348.
Turner, G. L’E., et S. Bradbury, “An Electron Microscopical Examination of Nobert’s Finest Test-plate of Twenty Bands”, Journal of the Royal Microscopy Society, 85 (1966), p. 435-447.
Warner, Deborah Jean. « The Cover Design: Lewis M. Rutherfurd, Pioneer Astronomical Photographer and Spectroscopist », Technology and Culture, 12 (1971), p. 180-216.
Id., « Rowland's Gratings: Contemporary Technology », Vistas in Astronomy, 29 (1986), p. 125-130.
Nota : La plupart de ces documents nécessitent des connaissances techniques. Ceux marqués d'un astérisque (*) sont les moins techniques.
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