Great Astronomers

  • Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton
    By Robert Stawell Ball

    Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamiltonby Robert Stawell BallSir Robert Stawell Ball (1 July 1840 - 25 November 1913) was an Irish astronomer who founded the screw theory.

  • Great Astronomers
    By Robert Stawell Ball

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  • Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton
    By Robert Ball

    This work has proven central to the modern study of classical field theories such as electromagnetism, and to the development of quantum mechanics.

  • Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton Illustrated
    By Robert Stawell Ball

    Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) was an Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who made important contributions to mechanics, optics, and algebra.

  • Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton: Large Print
    By Robert Stawell Ball

    Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) was an Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who made important contributions to mechanics, optics, and algebra.

  • Great Astronomers: William Rowa Hamilton
    By Robert Stawell Ball

    WILLIAM ROWAN HAMILTON was born at midnight between the 3rd and 4th of August, 1805, at Dublin, in the house which was then 29, but subsequently 36, Dominick Street.

  • Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton Annotated
    By Robert Stawell Ball

    This work has proven central to the modern study of classical field theories such as electromagnetism, and to the development of quantum mechanics.

  • Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton - Original Edition
    By Robert Stawell Ball

    William Rowan Hamilton was born at midnight between the 3rd and 4th of August, 1805, at Dublin, in the house which was then 29, but subsequently 36, Dominick Street.

  • Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton
    By Robert S Ball

    WILLIAM ROWAN HAMILTON was born at midnight between the 3rd and 4th of August, 1805, at Dublin, in the house which was then 29, but subsequently 36, Dominick Street.

  • Great Astronomers
    By Sir Robert Stawell Ball

    Sir Robert Stawell Ball. title, 'Historyof Physical Astronomy from the Earliest Ages to the Middle ofthe Nineteenth Century,' whenhefails to observe anynotice of the discoveriesof Sir W. R. Hamilton in the theory of the 'Dynamics ofthe ...

  • Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton
    By Robert Ball

    This work has proven central to the modern study of classical field theories such as electromagnetism, and to the development of quantum mechanics.In mathematics, he is perhaps best known as the inventor of the quaternion, which is a ...

  • Great Astronomers
    By Sir, Robert S. Ball

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  • Great Astronomers
    By Sir, Robert S Ball F R S

    PTOLEMY. COPERNICUS. TYCHO BRAHE. GALILEO. KEPLER. ISAAC NEWTON. FLAMSTEED. HALLEY. BRADLEY. WILLIAM HERSCHEL. LAPLACE. BRINKLEY. JOHN HERSCHEL. THE EARL OF ROSSE. AIRY. HAMILTON. LE VERRIER. ADAMS.

  • Great Astronomers: Annotated
    By Robert S. Ball

    Great Astronomers is a book by Irish astronomer Robert Stawell Ball.

  • Great Astronomers: Complete Collection (Golden Deer Classics)
    By Nicolaus Copernicus

    This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents -Great Astronomers: Tycho Brahe - Great Astronomers: Johannes Kepler - Great Astronomers: Isaac Newton - Great Astronomers: Nicolaus Copernicus - Great Astronomers: ...

  • Great Astronomers
    By R S Ball

    A fascinating guide to some of the greatest stargazers in history, including Copernicus, Galileo, Halley, Newton, Brahe and many more.

  • Great Astronomers: Isaac Newton
    By Robert Stawell Ball

    The Principia is generally considered to be one of the most important scientific books ever written, both due to the specific physical laws the work successfully described, and for its style, which assisted in setting standards for ...

  • Great Astronomers: Edmond Halley Illustrated
    By Robert Stawell Ball

    Edmond[1] (or Edmund[2]) Halley, FRS (/ˈhæli/;[3][4] 8 November [O.S. 29 October] 1656 - 25 January 1742 [O.S. 14 January 1741]) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist.

  • Great Astronomers: John Pond Illustrated
    By Agnes Mary Clerke

    John Pond, (born 1767, London, England--died September 7, 1836, Blackheath, Kent), sixth astronomer royal of England, who organized the Royal Greenwich Observatory to an efficiency that made possible a degree of observational precision ...

  • Great Astronomers: Nicolaus Copernicus
    By Robert Stawell Ball

    Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was a mathematician and astronomer who formulated a comprehensive heliocentric model which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center of the universe, contrary to the prevailing thought at his time ...