Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton Illustrated

ISBN-10
ISBN-13: 9798560439705
Series: Great Astronomers
Pages: 44
Language: English
Published: 2020-11-07
Publisher: Independently Published
Author: Robert Stawell Ball

Description

Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) was an Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who made important contributions to mechanics, optics, and algebra. As a teenager, he mastered parts of Newton's Principia and studied Laplace's celestial mechanics treatise. When barely 22, Hamilton became a professor of astronomy at University of Dublin, however he was more interested in theoretical rather than practical astronomy.