Great Astronomers

Great Astronomers

by Robert Stawell Ball
Great Astronomers

Great Astronomers

by Robert Stawell Ball

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781458706225
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Publication date: 01/01/2006
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 349 KB

About the Author

Sir Robert Stawell Ball FRS (July 1, 1840 - November 25, 1913) was an Irish astronomer who founded the screw theory.
He was the son of naturalist Robert Ball and Amelia Gresley Hellicar. He was born in Dublin.
Ball worked for Lord Rosse from 1865 to 1867. In 1867 he became Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Royal College of Science in Dublin. There he lectured on mechanics and published an elementary account of the science.
In 1874 Ball was appointed Royal Astronomer of Ireland and Andrews Professor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin at Dunsink Observatory.
In 1908 he published A Treatise on Spherical Astronomy, which is a textbook on astronomy starting from spherical trigonometry and the celestial sphere, considering atmospheric refraction and aberration of light, and introducing basic use of a generalised instrument.

Table of Contents

Preface7
Introduction9
Chapter 1Ptolemy13
Chapter 2Copernicus29
Chapter 3Tycho Brahe37
Chapter 4Galileo50
Chapter 5Kepler70
Chapter 6Isaac Newton83
Chapter 7Flamsteed104
Chapter 8Halley114
Chapter 9Bradley132
Chapter 10William Herschel142
Chapter 11Laplace153
Chapter 12Brinkley163
Chapter 13John Herschel173
Chapter 14The Earl of Rosse190
Chapter 15Airy200
Chapter 16Hamilton210
Chapter 17Le Verrier234
Chapter 18Adams249
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