275
Biblographical Notes
Political Reform, passed on 18 November 1976, was published in BOE 4 y
5/1/1977. Concerning the expulsion of Lluis Llach from Tenerife by the
police, see an interview with Ferran Monegal in La Vanguardia of 3 March
1976. Some of the official documentation concerning the killing of Javier
Fernández Quesada has been published in the online periodical El Observador
(www.revistaelobservador.com/79- fernandez- quesada). The Organic Law
11/1983 of University Reform was published in BOE-A-1983-23432.
Chapter 10
A Multinational Astrophysics Treaty (1970–2014)
For a discussion on the optical effects of occasional Saharan dust invasions, see
the contributions of A. Jiménez and J. González ,‘The grey behaviour of
Saharan dust’, and M. A. Guerrero, et al., ‘Extinction over the Canarian
Observatories: the limited influence of Saharan dust’, in C. Muñoz-Tuñón
(ed.), Site Properties of the Canarian Observatories (New Astronomy Reviews,
42, 1998) , 395–572. An historical overview of site-testing campaigns in the
Canary Islands is given by F. Sánchez, ‘Astronomy in the Canary Islands’
(Vistas in Astronomy, 28), 417. Early plans for building a 60-inch infrared flux
collector (which is now the Carlos Sánchez Telescope) are discussed by J. Ring,
‘Infrared Astronomy, Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Physics’ (Imperial
College of Science and Technology, University of London, 1968), 210. A
summary of the early days of astrophysics in Spain is provided by F. Sánchez
and J. M. Quintana, ‘Astronomy in Spain’, Anglo–Spanish Quarterly Review
(1976). In his autobiography, Fred Hoyle, Home Is Where the Wind Blows
(Mill Valley: University Science Books, 1994), 315–20, identifies the Canaries
as one of very few places on Earth where large telescopes might be usefully
located and describes the long history of the Isaac Newton Telescope from its
inception in 1948 to its eventual emplacement on La Palma. The first decade
of science across the electromagnetic spectrum done in the Canaries after the
signing of the International Agreements of Cooperation in Astrophysics is
described in J. V. Wall (ed.), ‘10th Anniversary of the Canary Islands
Observatories’, Astrophysical Letters and Communications, 28 (2–4), 1991. For
a detailed description of the 8-m telescope originally proposed for Roque de
los Muchachos, see P. Álvarez Martín et al. The ORM 8-m Telescope (La
Laguna: GRANTECAN, S.A., 1995).
Biblographical Notes
Political Reform, passed on 18 November 1976, was published in BOE 4 y
5/1/1977. Concerning the expulsion of Lluis Llach from Tenerife by the
police, see an interview with Ferran Monegal in La Vanguardia of 3 March
1976. Some of the official documentation concerning the killing of Javier
Fernández Quesada has been published in the online periodical El Observador
(www.revistaelobservador.com/79- fernandez- quesada). The Organic Law
11/1983 of University Reform was published in BOE-A-1983-23432.
Chapter 10
A Multinational Astrophysics Treaty (1970–2014)
For a discussion on the optical effects of occasional Saharan dust invasions, see
the contributions of A. Jiménez and J. González ,‘The grey behaviour of
Saharan dust’, and M. A. Guerrero, et al., ‘Extinction over the Canarian
Observatories: the limited influence of Saharan dust’, in C. Muñoz-Tuñón
(ed.), Site Properties of the Canarian Observatories (New Astronomy Reviews,
42, 1998) , 395–572. An historical overview of site-testing campaigns in the
Canary Islands is given by F. Sánchez, ‘Astronomy in the Canary Islands’
(Vistas in Astronomy, 28), 417. Early plans for building a 60-inch infrared flux
collector (which is now the Carlos Sánchez Telescope) are discussed by J. Ring,
‘Infrared Astronomy, Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Physics’ (Imperial
College of Science and Technology, University of London, 1968), 210. A
summary of the early days of astrophysics in Spain is provided by F. Sánchez
and J. M. Quintana, ‘Astronomy in Spain’, Anglo–Spanish Quarterly Review
(1976). In his autobiography, Fred Hoyle, Home Is Where the Wind Blows
(Mill Valley: University Science Books, 1994), 315–20, identifies the Canaries
as one of very few places on Earth where large telescopes might be usefully
located and describes the long history of the Isaac Newton Telescope from its
inception in 1948 to its eventual emplacement on La Palma. The first decade
of science across the electromagnetic spectrum done in the Canaries after the
signing of the International Agreements of Cooperation in Astrophysics is
described in J. V. Wall (ed.), ‘10th Anniversary of the Canary Islands
Observatories’, Astrophysical Letters and Communications, 28 (2–4), 1991. For
a detailed description of the 8-m telescope originally proposed for Roque de
los Muchachos, see P. Álvarez Martín et al. The ORM 8-m Telescope (La
Laguna: GRANTECAN, S.A., 1995).