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.

1871 Apr. 5 Remarks on the Determination of a Ship’s R. Soc. (Proc.)
                Place at Sea.

1871 May 2 Remarks on Samuelson’s Paper “Description Inst.  C.E.
                of two Blast Furnaces,” &c. (Minutes.)

1871 May 3 Note on Barometric Compensation of the Phil.  Mag. 
                Pendulum.

1871 June 3 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
                Board of Visitors.

1871 June 9 Remarks on Mr Abbott’s observations on R. Astr.  Soc.
                eta Argus.  Also on A.S.  Herschel’s and (Month.  Not.)
                J. Herschel’s Mechanism for measuring
                Time automatically in taking Transits.

1871 Erratum in Results of Greenwich R. Astr.  Soc. 
                Observations of the Solar Eclipse of 1860, (Month.  Not.)
                July 18.  Also Observations of the Solar
                Eclipse of 1870, Dec. 21-22, made at the
                Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

1871 Aug.  Investigation of the Law of the Progress Phil.  Mag.
                of Accuracy in the usual process for
                Forming a Plane Surface.

1871 Nov.16 Corrections to the Computed Lengths of Phil.  Trans. 
                Waves of Light for Kirchhoff’s Spectral
                Lines.

1871 On a supposed alteration in the amount R. Soc. (Proc.)
                of Astronomical Aberration of Light,
                produced by the passage of the Light
                through a considerable thickness of
                Refracting Medium.

1871 Nov. 29 Biography of G.B.  Airy. (Probably Daily Telegraph.
                corrected by himself.)

1871 Dec. 8 Note on a special point in the R. Astr.  Soc.
                determination of the Elements of the (Month.  Not.)
                Moon’s Orbit from Meridional Observations
                of the Moon.

1871 Dec. 26 Proposed devotion of an Observatory to R. Astr.  Soc.
                observation of the phenomena of Jupiter’s (Month.  Not.)
                Satellites.

1872 Jan.  Address to the Council of the Royal Society
                on the propriety of continuing the Grant
                to the Kew Observatory for meteorological
                observations.

1872 Feb. 8 Experiments on the Directive Power of Phil.  Trans.
                large Steel Magnets, of Bars of
                magnetized Soft Iron, and of Galvanic
                Coils, in their Action on external small
                Magnets—­with Appendix by James Stuart.

1872 Feb. 12 Further Observations on the state of an Camb.  Phil.  Soc. 
                Eye affected with a peculiar malformation.

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