George Biddell Airy
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Sir George Biddell Airy (27 luglio 1801 - 2 gennaio 1892) fu un astronomo inglese.
Nel 1835 divenne il settimo astronomo reale, conservando la carica fino al 1881. Alla sua nomina trovò l'Osservatorio Reale di Greenwich in uno stato di notevole disordine e inefficienza, e lo trasformò in uno dei migliori osservatori del mondo attraverso una rigida applicazione di norme molto severe.
[modifica] Opere
- Gravitation an elementary explanation of the principal perturbations in the solar system (London, Charles Knight, 1834)
- A Treatise on Trigonometry (London: Griffin & co. 1855)
- Mathematical Tracts on the Lunar and Planetary Theories, the Figure of the earth, precession and nutation, the calculus of variations, and the undulatory theory of optics (Cambridge, MacMillan, 1858)
- A treatise on magnetism (London : Macmillan, 1870)
- On sound and atmospheric vibrations, with the mathematical elements of music (London, MacMillan, 1871)
- Account of observations of the transit of Venus, 1874, December 8 : made under the authority of the British government : and of the reduction of the observations (London : H.M. Stationery Office, 1881)
- Popular astronomy. A series of lectures delivered at Ipswich (London, MacMillan, 1881)
- Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy (Cambridge : University Press, 1896)
[modifica] Bibliografia
- R. S. Ball Great Astronomers (London, Pitman, 1907)
- A. MacFarlane Lectures on ten British physicists of the nineteenth century (London, Chapman & Hall, 1916)
