AP Norton Papers deposited at Royal Observatory Edinburgh

• Reference:GB 586 ROE/ES1
• Dates of Creation:1900s - 1910s
• Name of Creator:
  Arthur Philip Norton
• Physical Description:
  7 volumes

• Scope and Content

  Seven notebooks of AP Norton said to be the workbooks used in compiling his ‘Star Atlas’ first published in 1910. On permanent loan from the Ast. Soc. of Ed.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Arthur Philip Norton (1876–1955) was a British school teacher, who drew the star charts used in the first editions of the Star Atlas, first published in 1910.

• Personal Names

  Arthur Philip Norton