Author:George Biddell Airy

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George Biddell Airy
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Kt; English mathematician and astronomer; Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881.

Works

Mathematical tracts on physical astronomy, 1826 (external scan)
On the figure of the Earth, 1826 (external scan)
On the use of Silvered Glass for the Mirrors of Reflecting Telescopes, 1827 (external scan)
On the Figure assumed by a Fluid Homogeneous Mass, whose Particles are acted on by their mutual Attraction, and by small extraneous Forcfes, 1827 (external scan)
On the Principles and Construction of the Achromatic Eye-Pieces of Telescopes, and on the Achromatism of Microscopes, 1827 (external scan)
On a peculiar Defect in the Eye, and a mode of correcting it, 1827 (external scan)
On the Forms of the Teeth of Wheels, 1827 (external scan)
On Laplace's Investigation of the Attraction of Spheroids differing little from a Sphere, 1827 (external scan)
Remarks on a correction of the solar tables required by Mr. Southʼs observations, 1827 (external scan)
On some Passages in Mr. Ivory's Remarks on a Memoir by M. Poisson relating to the Attraction of Spheroids, 1827 (external scan)
On the corrections in the elements of Delambre’s solar tables required by the observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1828 (external scan)
On the Spherical Aberration of the Eye-piece of Telescopes, 1830 (external scan)
On the Disturbances of Pendulums and Balances, and on the Theory of Escapements, 1830 (external scan)
On the Longitude of the Cambridge Observatory, 1830 (external scan)
On a Correction requisite to be applied to the Length of a Pendulum consisting of a Ball suspended by a fine Wire, 1830 (external scan)
On certain Conditions under which a Perpetual Motion is possible, 1830 (external scan)
Mathematical tracts on the lunar and planetary theories, 1831 (external scan)
On a Method of determining the Mass of the Moon from Transit Observations of Venus near her inferior conjunction, 1831 (external scan)
On an inequality of long period in the motions of the Earth and Venus 1832 (external scan)
Appendix to "On the Figure of the Mural Circle at the Observatory of the Cape of Good Hope by Rev. R. Sheepshanks", 1833 (external scan)
On the Mass of Jupiter, as determined from the Observation of Elongations of the Fourth Satellite, 1833 (external scan)
On the Nature of the Light in the two Rays produced by the Double Refraction of Quartz, 1833 (external scan)
Addition to a Paper "On the Nature of the Light in the two Rays produced by the Double Refraction of Quartz", 1833 (external scan)
On a Remarkable Modification of Newton's Rings, 1833 (external scan)
On a new Analyzer, and its Use in Experiments of Polarization, 1833 (external scan)
On a Phaenomenona of Newton's Rings when formed between two transparent Substances of different refractive Powers, 1833 (external scan)
Gravitation, 1834 (external scan)
On the Calculation of Newton's Experiments on Diffraction, 1835 (external scan)
On the Latitude of Cambridge Observatory, 1835 (external scan)
On the Diffraction of an Object-glass with Circular Aperture, 1835 (external scan)
Continuation of Researches into the Value of the Mass of Jupiter, by observation of the Elongations of the Fourth Satellite, 1835 (external scan)
On the Position of the Ecliptic, as inferred from Transit and Circle Observations made at Cambridge Observatory in the year 1833, 1835 (external scan)
Observations of the Solar Eclipse of July 16, 1833, made at Cambridge Observatory, and Calculations of the Observations, 1835 (external scan)
On the Time of Rotation of Jupiter, 1836 (external scan)
Continuation of Researches into the Value of Jupiter's Mass, 1836 (external scan)
On the Position of the Ecliptic, as inferred from Observations with the Cambridge Transit and Mural Circle, made in the year 1834, 1836 (external scan)
An Address delivered at the Annual General Meeting of the Society, on February 12, 1836, on presenting the Honorary Medal to Sir J. F. W. Herschel, 1836 (external scan)
On the Intensity of Light in the neighbourhood of a Caustic, 1838 (external scan)
A catalogue of circumpolar stars, 1838 (editor) (external scan)
Continuation of Researches into the Value of Jupiter's Mass, 1838 (external scan)
On the Position of the Ecliptic, as inferred from Observations with the Cambridge Transit and Mural Circle, made in the Year 1835, 1838 (external scan)
Results of the Observations of the Sun, Moon, and Planets, made at the Cambridge Observatory in the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835, 1838 (external scan)
On the Parallax of α Lyræ, 1838 (external scan)
An Address delivered at the Annual General Meeting of the Society, on February 10, 1837, on presenting the Honorary Medal to Professor Rosenberger, 1838 (external scan)
Account of experiments on iron-built ships, instituted for the purpose of discovering a correction for the deviation of the compass produced by the iron of the ships, 1839 (external scan)
The Bakerian lecture.— On the theoretical explanation of an apparent new polarity in light, 1840 (external scan)
Supplement to a paper “On the theoretical explanation of an apparent new polarity in light.", 1841 (external scan)
On a New Construction of the Going-Fusee, 1842 (external scan)
On the laws of the rise and fall of the tide in the River Thames, 1842 (external scan)
On the laws of individual tides at Southampton and at Ipswich, 1843 (external scan)
On the laws of the tides on the coasts of Ireland, as inferred from an extensive series of observations made in connection with the ordnance survey of Ireland, 1845 (external scan)
On a Change in the State of an Eye affected with a Mal-formation, 1848 (external scan)
Supplement to a Paper "On the Intenstiy of Light in the neighbourhood of a Caustic", 1848 (external scan)
On the relation of the direction of the wind to the age of the moon, as inferred from observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1840 November to 1847 December, 1851 (external scan)
On the eclipses of Agathocles, Thales and Xerxes, 1853 (external scan)
On the computation of the effect of the attraction of mountain-masses, as disturbing the apparent astronomical latitude of stations in geodetic surveys, 1855 (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)
Discussion of the observed deviations of the compass in several ships, wood-built and iron-built : with a general table for facilitating the examination of compass deviations, 1856 (external scan)
Account of pendulum experiments undertaken in the Harton Colliery, for the purpose of determining the mean density of the earth, 1856 (external scan)
Account of the construction of the new national standard of length, and of its principal copies, 1857 (external scan)
On the difference in the magnetic properties of hot-rolled and cold-rolled malleable iron, as regards the power of receiving and retaining induced magnetism of subpermanent character, 1862 (external scan)
On the strains in the Interior of beams, 1863 (external scan)
On the diurnal inequalities of terrestrial magnetism, as deduced from observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1841 to 1857, 1863 (external scan)
First analysis of one hundred and seventy-seven magnetic storms, registered by the magnetic instruments in the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1841 to 1857, 1863 (external scan)
Magnetical errors, compensations, & corrections, with special reference to iron ships and their compasses, 1864 (external scan)
On the Substitution of Methods founded on Ordinary Geometry for Methods based on the General Doctrine of Proportions, in the Treatment of some Geometrical Problems, 1864 (external scan)
Suggestion of a Proof of the Theorem that every Algebraic Equation has a Root, 1864 (external scan)
Supplement to a Proof of the the Theorem that every Algebraic Equation has a Root, 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)
Computation of the lengths of the waves of light corresponding to the lines in the dispersion spectrum measured by Kirchhoff, 1868 (external scan)
Comparison of magnetic disturbances recorded by the self-registering magnetometers at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, with magnetic disturbances deduced from the corresponding terrestrial galvanic currents recorded by the self-registering galvanometers of the Royal Observatory, 1868 (external scan)
On the diurnal and annual inequalities of terrestrial magnetism, as deduced from observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from 1858 to 1863; being a continuation of a communication on the diurnal inequalities from 1841 to 1857, printed in the Philosophical Transactions, 1863. With a note on the lunodiurnal and other lunar inequalities, as deduced from observations extending from 1848 to 1863, 1869 (external scan)
A treatise on magnetism, 1870 (external scan)
Note on an extension of the comparison of magnetic disturbances with magnetic effects inferred from observed terrestrial galvanic currents; and discussion of the magnetic effects inferred from galvanic currents on days of tranquil magnetism, 1870 (external scan)
On sound and atmospheric vibrations with the mathematical elements of music. 1871 (external scan)
Corrections to the computed lengths of waves of light published in the Philosophical Transactions of the year 1868, 1872 (external scan)
Experiments on the directive power of large steel magnets, of bars of magnetized soft iron, and of galvanic coils, in their action on external small magnets. —With appendix, containing an investigation of the attraction of a galvanic coil on a small magnetic mass, 1872 (external scan)
Magnetical observations in the Britannia and Conway tubular iron bridges, 1873 (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)
On the tides at Malta, 1878 (external scan)
Account of observations of the transit of Venus, 1874, December 8 Published 1881 (editor) (external scan)
Results deduced from the measures of terrestrial magnetic force in the horizontal plane, at the Royal Observatoy, Greenwich, from 1841 to 1876, 1885 (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)
"Airy, George Biddell," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and 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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