Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton: Large Print
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798606011148
- Series
- Great Astronomers
- Pages
- 86
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-02-19
- 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.
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