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.

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.

1859 Manual of Astronomy—­for the Admiralty.  Parly.  Paper.

1859 Feb. 1 Letter to Lord Monteagle relating to the
                Standards of Weights and Measures.

1859 Feb. 4 Remarks on Mr Cayley’s Trigonometrical Phil.  Mag. 
                Theorem, and on Prof.  Challis’s Proof
                that Equations have Roots.

1859 Mar. 11 On the Movement of the Solar System in R. Astr.  Soc. 
                Space. (Memoirs.)

1859 Apr. 8 On the Apparent Projection of Stars upon R. Astr.  Soc.
                the Moon’s Disc in Occultations.  Also (Month.  Not.)
                Comparison of the Lunar Tables of
                Burckhardt and Hansen with Observations
                of the Moon made at the Royal
                Observatory, Greenwich.

1859 Apr. 8 On the Apparent Projection of Stars upon R. Astr.  Soc.
                the Moon’s Disc in Occultations. (Memoirs.)

1859 June 4 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
                Board of Visitors.

1859 June 10 Abstract of Maxwell’s Paper “On the R. Astr.  Soc. 
                Stability of the Motion of Saturn’s Rings.” (Month.  Not.)

1859 July 8 Corrections of the Elements of the Moon’s R. Astr.  Soc. 
                Orbit, deduced from the Lunar Observations (Memoirs.)
                made at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich
                from 1750 to 1851.

1859 Sept. 10 On the Invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar.  Athenaeum. 
                (Answer to Mr Lewin.)

1859 Nov. 12 On Iron Ships—­The Royal Charter.  Athenaeum. 
                (Answer to Archibald Smith’s Remarks.)

1859 Nov.  Circular requesting observations of small
                Planets.

1859 Dec. 9 Notice of the approaching Total Eclipse of R. Astr.  Soc.
                the Sun of July 18,1860, and suggestions (Month.  Not.)
                for observation.

1859 Dec. 12 Supplement to A Proof of the Theorem Camb.  Phil.  Soc.
                that Every Algebraic Equation has a Root.

1860 Jan. 13 Description of the New Equatoreal at the R. Astr.  Soc. 
                Royal Observatory, Greenwich.  Also (Month.  Not.)
                Abstract of an Essay by Gen. T.F. de
                Schubert on the Figure of the Earth.

1860 Jan. 28 On the Claudian or Plautian Invasion of Athenaeum
                Britain.

1860 Feb. 2 Examination of Navy 2-foot Telescopes at
                the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1860,
                Jan. 31 to Feb. 2.

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