Author:George Biddell Airy

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Sir George Biddell Airy
(1801–1892)

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English mathematician and astronomer. Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881.

Works

Mathematical tracts on physical astronomy, 1826 external scan
Mathematical tracts on the lunar and planetary theories, 1831 external scan
Gravitation, 1834 external scan
A catalogue of circumpolar stars, 1838 (editor) external scan
On the difference of longitude between the observatories of Brussels and Greeenwich, 1855 (short work) external scan
A treatise on trigonometry, 1855 external scan
Magnetical errors, compensations, & corrections, with special reference to iron ships and their compasses, 1864 external scan
Popular Astronomy: A Series of Lectures Delivered at Ipswich (1866, 5th edition) external scan
An elementary treatise on partial differential equations, 1866 external scan
On the undulatory theory of optics, 1866 external scan
Verification and extension of La Caille's arc of meridian at the Cape of Good Hope, 1866 (editor) external scan
A treatise on magnetism, 1870 external scan
On sound and atmospheric vibrations with the mathematical elements of music. 1871 external scan
On the algebraical and numerical theory of errors of observations and the combination of observations, 1875 external scan
Notes on the earlier Hebrew scriptures, 1876 external scan
Reduction of twenty years' photographic records made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1878 external scan
Account of observations of the transit of Venus, 1874, December 8 Published 1881 (editor) external scan
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy, 1896 external scan
The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, 1904 (commentary) external scan

Translations

On Encke's Comet. Encke's dissertation contained in no. CCX and CCXI of the Astronomische Nachrichten by Johann Franz Encke (1832)

Works about Airy

Great astronomers by Robert Stawell Ball, 1907 external scan
Lectures on ten British physicists of the nineteenth century by Alexander Macfarlane, 1916 external scan
"Sketch of Sir G. B. Airy" in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (May 1873)
"Airy, Sir George Biddell," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
"Obituary: George Biddell Airy" in Popular Science Monthly, 40 (April 1892)
"Airy, George Biddell," in Dictionary of National Biography Supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1901) in 3 vols.
"Airy, Sir George Biddell," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

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