Part 2 of Burnham's

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The second part of the alphabetic index of names in Burnham's Celestial Handbook


For page numbers, see Christof Plicht's and Arndt Latusseck's PDF version of their own Burnham index:
www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/DE/Oef/Stw/www.plicht.de/chris/files/docs/bchindex.pdf

-Names Only- index (with additional Wikipedia links); compiled by Danny Caes
- DannyCaes DannyCaes May 19, 2015

Part 2: I to P' (Part 1: A to H) (Part 3: Q to Z)

I (Vols 1, 2, and 3)
Ihle, Abraham/ Innes, R.T./ Irwin, J.B. (not to be confused with James Benson Irwin; Apollo 15 astronaut) (
Burnhams J.B.Irwin is probably John Henry Barrows Irwin, 1909-1997).

J (Vols 1, 2, and 3)
Jacchia, L./ Jackson, C./ Jacob, W.S./ Jacobs/ James I (King)/ Jansky, K.G./ Jaschek, M. and C./ Jastrzebski, T./ Jeans, James/ Jeffers, H.M./ Jerzykiewicz, M./ Johnson, Ben/ Johnson, H.L./ Johnson, H.M./ Jones, Albert/ Jones, K.G./ Jones, Lawrence/ Jones, S./ Jordan, F.C./ Joy, A.H.
Note:
Jones, Lawrence (page 1) seems to be forgotten in C.Plicht's and A.Latusseck's PDF version of their own Burnham index.

K (Vols 1, 2, and 3)
Kaliniak, A.A/ Kapteyn/ Keenan, P.C./ Kempf, P./ Kepler/ Kimon/ Kinman, T.D./ Kippenhahn, Rudolf/ Kirch, Gottfried/ Kirch, Marie Margarethe/ Klein, H.J./ Knipe, G.F./ Koch, J.A./ Koehler, J.G./ Koelbloed, D./ Kohoutek, L./ Kopal, Z./ Kopff/ Kovesligethy, M./ Kowal, C.T./ Kraft, R.P./ Kreimer, Evered/ Kremser, T.R./ Kron, G.E./ Krueger, A./ Krzeminski, W./ Kuhns, James L./ Kuiper, Gerard P./ Kukarin, B.V./ Kung, S.M./ Kunowsky/ Kunz, George F.

L (Vols 1, 2, and 3)
Lacaille, Abbe de/ Lacaille, M. de/ LaFara, R./ Lalande/ Lampland, C.O./ Lampman, A./ Land, G./ Landau, L./ Landolt, A.U./ Lao Tzu/ Laplace/ Lassel/ Lassell/ Le Gentil/ Leavitt, Henrietta/ Lee, Sherman E./ Lee, T.A./ Leverrier, U.J./ Lewis, B.M./ Lewis, T./ Li Ho/ Li Po/ Lieh-I/ Liller, W.H. and W./ Li-Lung/ Lindenblad, I.W./ Lindsay/ Lippincott, S./ Lissner, Ivar/ Littrow, Carl von/ Lockyer, Sir Norman/ Longfellow/ Lorre, J./ Lovas, M./ Lovecraft, Howard P./ Lovell, B./ Low, F. J./ Lowell, James R./ Lowell, Percival/ Lubeck, K./ Ludendorff, H./ Ludwig V. (King)/ Luft, Herbert A./ Luyten, W.J./ Lyman, Gary and Thomas/ Lynds, C.R.
Note:
Luft, Herbert A. (page "0"), Lyman (both Gary and Thomas, page 1) seem to be forgotten in C.Plicht's and A.Latusseck's PDF version of their own Burnham index.

M (Vols 1, 2, and 3)
Mackey, M.B./ Maedler, J.H./ Maestlin/ Magellan, Ferdinand/ Mallas, J. H./ Maltwood, K./ Manilius/ Maraldi/ Maran, Stephen P./ Marius/ Markwick, E.E./ Marlowe/ Martin, Martha E./ Maskelyne, Nevil/ Materne, J./ Mather, L./ Maupertius/ Maurolycus/ Maury, A./ Maury, A.C./ Mayall, N.U./ Mayer, C./ Mayer, J.T./ Mayer, T. (??)/ Mazaeus/ McCall, W./ McClure, Alan/ McKellar, A./ McKready, K. (the same as the McKready on page 48?)/ McLaughlin, D.B./ McLean, I.S./ McNamara, D.H./ McNamara, J.B./ Mechain, M./ Mechain, P./ Melotte/ Meltzer, A.S./ Mencken, H.L./ Mendoza, E.E./ Menon, T. K./ Menzel, Donald H./ Merrill, P.W./ Merritt, A./ Messier, Charles/ Meyer, W.F./ Michell, John/ Michelson/ Mihira, Varaha/ Miller, W.C./ Millis, R.L./ Mills, B.Y./ Milne, D.K./ Milton, (John)/ Minkowski, R./ Miraldi/ Mitchel, O.M./ Mitchell, R.I./ Molnar, M.R./ Montanari, Geminiano/ Moore, J.H./ Moreno, H./ Morgan, W.W./ Morin/ Morrison, P./ Moussorgsky/ Mullaney,J./ Muller, G./ Muller, P./ Myers, G.W.
Note:
McKready (page 48) seems to be forgotten in C.Plicht's and A.Latusseck's PDF version of their own Burnham index.

N (Vols 1, 2, and 3)
Nariai, K./ Nather, R.E./ Needham, Joseph/ Neff, J.S./ Nelson, B./ Nero/ Neugebauer, G./ Newton, I./ Niero, Andrew/ Norton
(only ten N-names? I can't believe it, there should be many more)
Note:
Neff, J.S. (page 1582) and Niero, Andrew (page 1) seem to be forgotten in C.Plicht's and A.Latusseck's PDF version of their own Burnham index. Neff seems to have been one of the very first scientists who really investigated planet Pluto several years after its telescopic discovery by Clyde Tombaugh. See also asteroid 9087 Neff (is this the same as Burnham's J.S.Neff?).

O (Vols 1, 2, and 3)
Oda, M./ O'Dell, C.R./ Olbers/ Olcott, W.T./ Oort, Jan Hendrik/ Oosterhoff, P.T./ Oppenheimer, J. Robert/ Oriani, B./ Osara, Kentaro/ Osterbrock, D.E./ Osvalds, V./ Ovid

P (Vols 1, 2, and 3)
Pacini, F./ Paczynski, B./ Palitzsch/ Palmer, H.K./ Paraskevopoulos, J.S./ Parenago, P.P./ Parker, R.A.R./ Pasinetti, L.E./ Paul, Henry E./ Pavel, F./ Payne, Robert/ Pearce, J.A./ Pease, F.F./ Peery, B.F., Dr./ Peiresc, Nicholas/ Peltier, Leslie C./ Penrose, F.C./ Perek, L./ Peters, C.H.F./ Petrie, R.M./ Pettit, Edison/ Phaeton/ Piazzi/ Picasso/ Pickering, E.C./ Pickering, W.H./ Pigott, E./ Piland, Billy Bruce and Rick Dale/ Pindar/ Plaskett, J.S./ Pliny/ Plutarch/ Poe, Edgar Allan/ Pogo, A./ Pogson, N./ Polybius/ Pompeius Festus, S./ Pope-Hennessy, Una, Dame/ Popertius/ Popper, D.M./ Poss, H.L./ Pound/ Prager, R./ Prendergast, K.H./ Prentice, J.P./ Preston, G.W./ Priam, King/ Proctor, Mary/ Proctor, R.A./ Ptolemy/ Putnam, E.W.
Note:
Piland, Billy Bruce and Rick Dale (page 1), Putnam, E.W. (page 48) seem to be forgotten in C.Plicht's and A.Latusseck's PDF version of their own Burnham index.