Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy eBook

George Biddell Airy
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Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy eBook

George Biddell Airy
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 516 pages of information about Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy.

1855 Jan. 1 Lecture at S. Shields on the Pendulum
                Experiments in the Harton Pit, and
                Letter on the Results.

1855 Feb. 2 Lecture on the Pendulum Experiments R. Inst.
                lately made in the Harton Colliery for
                ascertaining the mean Density of the
                Earth.

1855 Feb. 3 On the Correction of the Compass in Iron Athenaeum. 
               Ships. (Remarks on Dr Scoresby’s
               Investigations.)

1855 Address on presenting the Medal of the R. Astr.  Soc. 
                R. Astr.  Soc. to the Rev. William Rutter (Month.  Not.)
                Dawes.

1855 Feb. 15 On the Computation of the Effect of the Phil.  Trans. 
                Attraction of Mountain Masses, as
                disturbing the Apparent Astronomical
                Latitude of Stations in Geodetic Surveys.

1855 June 2 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
                Board of Visitors.

1855 Oct. 18 Address to the Individual Members of the
                Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory,
                Greenwich. (Equatoreal.)

1855 Nov. 21 Remarks upon certain Cases of Personal R. Astr.  Soc. 
                Equation which appear to have hitherto (Memoirs.)
                escaped notice, accompanied with a Table
                of Results.

1855 Nov. 22 Discussion of the Observed Deviations of Phil.  Trans.
                the Compass in several Ships, Wood-built
                and Iron-built:  with a General
                Table for facilitating the examination of
                Compass-Deviations.

1855 Description of the Reflex Zenith Tube of
                the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. (App.
                to the Greenwich Obs. for 1854.)

1856 Jan. 9 On Professor Peirce’s Criterion for Astr.  Journ.
                discordant observations. (Cambr.)

1856 Jan. 24 Account of Pendulum Experiments undertaken Phil.  Trans.
                in the Harton Colliery, for the
                purpose of determining the Mean Density
                of the Earth.

1856 June 7 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
                Board of Visitors.

1856 Aug. 25 On Scheutz’s Calculating Machine.  Phil.  Mag.

1856 Aug. 30 Science and the Government. (Reply to Athenaeum.
                statements in the Morning Chronicle
                about the instrumental equipment of the
                Royal Observatory.)

1857 May 8 On the Means which will be available for R. Astr.  Soc.
                correcting the Measure of the Sun’s (Month.  Not.)
                Distance in the next twenty-five years.

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