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Sir George Biddell Airy
Sir George Biddell Airy 1801-92, English astronomer. The son of a poor farmer, he distinguished himself as Senior Wrangler at Cambridge, where he was elected fellow of Trinity College (1824) and appointed professor (1826). As Astronomer Royal and director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory from 183... Read more
Nevil Maskelyne
Nevil Maskelyne , 1732-1811, English astronomer. Maskelyne received his education at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Appointed astronomer royal at the Royal Observatory in 1765, he held this post for 46 years. He introduced the determination of longitude by lunar distances into En... Read more
George Graham
George Graham 1674?-1751, English instrument maker. A clockmaker by trade, Graham designed clocks and watches that earned him membership in the Royal Society and were still manufactured into the present century. In 1725 he built a very accurate 8-ft (2.4-m) quadrant for the royal astronomer, Edmund... Read more
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Royal Greenwich Observatory astronomical observatory established in 1675 by Charles II of England; formerly known as the Royal Observatory and located at Greenwich, it moved to Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, in 1946. In the 1990 new headquarters at Cambridge were opened. Its equipment includes the ... Read more
Sir Frank Watson Dyson
Sir Frank Watson Dyson , 1868-1939, English astronomer, b. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, grad. Cambridge. He was astronomer royal of Scotland (1905-10) and of England (from 1910). As director (1910-33) of Greenwich Observatory he greatly expanded its research activities and inaugurated (1928) the wireless tran... Read more
Sir David Gill
Sir David Gill , 1843-1914, Scottish astronomer, educated at the Univ. of Aberdeen. He made observations of the transits of Venus and Mars and investigated the solar parallax. As astronomer royal (1879-1907) at the Cape of Good Hope, he carried out the geodetic survey of Natal and Cape Colony and or... Read more
Edward Emerson Barnard
Edward Emerson Barnard 1857-1923, American astronomer, b. Nashville, Tenn., grad. Vanderbilt Univ., 1887. From 1887 to 1895 he was astronomer at Lick Observatory in California, and from 1895 he was professor of practical astronomy at the Univ. of Chicago and astronomer at Yerkes Observatory. The di... Read more
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage , 1792-1871, English mathematician and inventor. He devoted most of his life and expended much of his private fortune and a government subsidy in an attempt to perfect a mechanical calculating machine that foreshadowed present-day machines. He was a founder of the Royal Astronomical ... Read more
Greenwich mean time
Greenwich mean time or Greenwich meridian time (GMT), the former name for mean solar time at the original site of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, which is located on the prime meridian . In 1925 the numbering system was changed to make GMT equivalent to civil time at the prime m... Read more
John Winthrop
John Winthrop 1714-79, American scientist, b. Boston, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1732. Because of his study of earthquakes, he is sometimes called the founder of seismology. He made scientific observations of sunspots and other astronomical phenomena, lectured on electricity, and was the first important... Read more

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Royal Greenwich Observatory
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Royal Greenwich Observatory astronomical...England; formerly known as the Royal Observatory and located at...observatory held the title of astronomer royal. Among the noted directors...the first director not to be astronomer royal.
James Bradley
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Bradley The English astronomer James Bradley (1693...determined and meticulous astronomers, discovered the aberration...the nephew of the astronomer James Pound, was...elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and at the...At Greenwich, as astronomer royal, where he found...Williams, ...
Thomas Gold
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Throughout his career as an astronomer, Thomas Gold (born 1920...scientific officer with the Royal Greenwich Observatory. As chief assistant to the Astronomer Royal, Gold oversaw the...s work with positional astronomers led to his important contribution...later. When the mantle of ...
John Flamsteed
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography John Flamsteed The English astronomer John Flamsteed (1646-1719), the first astronomer royal, was the author of an important set of star...our astronomical observator," the first astronomer royal. Flamsteed's position was difficult...
Board of Longitude
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...mathematicians and astronomers, including Sir Isaac...president of the Royal Society, and Edmond...succeeded Flamsteed as Astronomer Royal, were consulted...1522, the Flemish astronomer Gemma Frisius had pointed...probably favoured by most astronomers, lay in the observation...
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...astronomy at Trinity College and astronomer royal of Ireland. The following year...prizes. In 1824 he presented to the Royal Irish Academy a paper, "On Caustics...Observatory of Dunsink, the title of astronomer royal of Ireland, and a spacious...
nautical almanac
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ...for the navigator and nautical astronomer. The earliest nautical almanac...celestes published in Paris under royal patent by the Bureau des Longitudes...a practicable possibility. The Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne, was therefore...
Edmond Halley
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Halley , 1656-1742, English astronomer and mathematician. He is particularly noted as the first astronomer to predict the return of a comet...North Atlantic. He was made astronomer royal in 1720. He observed the moon...
Sir David Gill
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...David Gill , 1843-1914, Scottish astronomer, educated at the Univ. of Aberdeen...investigated the solar parallax. As astronomer royal (1879-1907) at the Cape of...History and Description of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope...
Sir George Biddell Airy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Sir George Biddell Airy 1801-92, English astronomer. The son of a poor farmer, he distinguished...1824) and appointed professor (1826). As Astronomer Royal and director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory from 1835 to 1881, he...

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Astronomer Royal
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy Astronomer Royal An honorary title held by a prominent British astronomer, created in 1675 by King...founded. Until 1971 the Astronomer Royal was also Director...subsequently made separate. astronomers royal Name Held office John...
Astronomer Royal for Scotland
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy Astronomer Royal for Scotland A title created in 1834, originally given to the director for the Royal Observatory at Edinburgh but since 1995 a separate honorary position.
Bradley, James
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...the ablest amateur astronomers in England and who...his appointment as astronomer royal in 1742, Oxford awarded...100 per year as astronomer royal. When Halley...to succeed him as astronomer royal; and he held...English and foreign astronomers. He was elected a...
Dyson, Frank Watson
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...appointed chief assistant at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich in 1894; astronomer royal for Scotland in 1905...Greenwich to become the eleventh astronomer royal. It was by cooperation...Greenwich was a byword among astronomers from every country. In 1931...Dyson ’ s tenure ...
Baily, Francis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Society of London (later the Royal Astronomical Society...Edmund Halley, the second astronomer royal, had unduly maligned...eclipse of 8 July 1842, many astronomers accordingly journeyed to...to be total. The British astronomer royal, George B. Airy...John Flamsteed, the First ...
Hansen, Peter Andreas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...leading German theoretical astronomer of the mid — nineteenth...Schumacher, then a leading astronomer in Denmark, was temporarily...considered among the foremost astronomers of his time. He was above...received a prize from the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin...George Biddell Airy, then ...
Proctor, Richard Anthony
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...literary context. As an astronomer he was prone to speculation...served as an officer of the Royal Astronomical Society, contributing...them acknowledged by later astronomers as having introduced them...1874 was to be used. The astronomer royal, Sir George Airy...observations of many ...
Henderson, Thomas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Lauderdale. There he met many astronomers, including Sir James South...Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society on the difference...successor to Fearon Fallows as royal astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope...simultaneously made first astronomer royal for Scotland, professor...
Adams, John Couch
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...through James Challis to the astronomer royal, Sir George Biddell Airy, for...1846. In the meantime a French astronomer, Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier...Johann Gottfried Galle, an astronomer at the Berlin Observatory, found...
Plummer, Henry Crozier
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...1946) astronomy. The son of an astronomer, Plummer graduated from Hertford...In 1912 Plummer was appointed astronomer royal of Ireland, a post once occupied...professor of mathematics at the Royal Artillery College, where he remained...

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Astronomer royal talks on physics, history
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 3/5/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Great Britain's 14th astronomer royal, a listener asked...audience chuckle. He was astronomer royal from 1990...of several of the astronomers royal starting with...ways in which some astronomers royal tried to measure...During his tenure as astronomer ...
Flamsteed's Stars: New Perspectives on the Life and Work of the First Astronomer Royal (1646-1719).(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Work of the First Astronomer Royal (1646-1719), edited...ownership and publication of the Astronomer Royal's star charts and...institutional position as Astronomer Royal. Bennett contrasts...Flamsteed's models for the astronomer initially included native astronomers as ...
Features: Magician of the spheres Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, has packed 30 years of cosmic insight into a slim volume of just 282 pages. Robert Matthews asks him some Big Questions
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/2/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...loners. And if you are the Astronomer Royal, you get letters from cranks...departmental bin. As 15th Astronomer Royal - a post once held...as a bit of a shock. The Astronomer Royal mulling over the cosmic...problems demanding insight. Astronomers were arguing over whether...
FOCUS LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS: Total revelations Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, explains why next week's total eclipse of the Sun, the first to be seen in Britain since 1927, has such significance for scientists - and everyone else
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 8/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...century. By that time, astronomers understood the layout...Halley, the second Astronomer Royal, is best known for...navigation. The title "Astronomer Royal" dates from...the 19th century. Astronomers study stars just as...It isn't just astronomers who support campaigns...
Horse Racing: Astronomer Royal fails to double up for Ballydoyle in Turf Mile; REPORT: USA (Saturday) Shadwell Turf Mile G1 Kenneland 1m (turf).(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 10/8/2007; 700+ words ; Byline: Dan Farley ASTRONOMER ROYAL could finish only sixth of nine behind 20-1 shot Purim as...Breeders' Cup trials across the States, writes Dan Farley. Astronomer Royal was sent off 3-1 favourite for the EUR650,000 event, but...
What do the Astronomer Royal and `Dracula' have in common?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/23/2000; ; 700+ words ; WHAT DOES Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, have in common with the actor Christopher Lee, most famous...the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, who is also the Astronomer Royal, occupies the same starry position among his peers. According...
Horse Racing: Astronomer Royal aimed at Keeneland test.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 10/4/2007; 700+ words ; ...the act, sending his French 2,000 Guineas winner Astronomer Royal across the Atlantic for Saturday's Grade 1 Shadwell...opening weekend, dubbed 'FallStars Weekend'. Astronomer Royal, a son of Danzig, was seventh behind Darjina in...
Derby man produced definitive star atlas ; Britain's first Astronomer Royal was a Derby man, John Flamsteed. Appointed just 328 years ago today, Maxwell Craven examines his invaluable contribution to our knowledge of the universe.
Newspaper article from: Derby Evening Telegraph; 3/4/2008; 700+ words ; Britain's first Astronomer Royal was a Derby man, John Flamsteed. Appointed just 328 years...the universe. Exactly 328 years ago today, Britain's first Astronomer Royal was appointed by Charles II. There were hard-headed economics...
Sunday Comment: My advice for 1998: ignore horoscopes Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, says that astrology is bunk
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/28/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...when he realised that I was a mere astronomer, and not the Queen's astrologer...outnumber, and massively outearn, astronomers. Some scientists - Richard Dawkins...the ancient Chinese counterpart of Astronomer Royal) observed something remarkable in...
Books: Getting a grip on the cosmos Graham Farmelo enjoys a lucid explanation of the origins of the universe by the Astronomer Royal
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 1/26/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...success. Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, gives us a fascinating...evidence is very direct because astronomers can observe the actual radiation...extraordinarily well the observations astronomers make with their telescopes...that, according to some astronomers, some galaxies appear ...