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Kt; English mathematician and astronomer; Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881.
George Biddell Airy
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, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
- "Airy, Sir George Biddell," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Airy, Sir George Biddell," in A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists (pp. 11−12), (ed.) by Joseph McCabe, London: Watts & Co. (1920)
Works by this author published before January 1, 1927 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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