Author:Robert Stawell Ball
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Robert Stawell Ball
Works
[edit]- Experimental Mechanics: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Science for Ireland (1871) (external scan)
- Theory of screws: a study in the dynamics of a rigid body (1876) (external scan)
- Astronomy (1877) (external scan)
- Elements of Astronomy (1880) (external scan)
- The Story of the Heavens (1886) (external scan)
- Star-land Being Talks With Young People About The Wonders Of the Heavens (1889) (external scan)
- The cause of an ice age (1891) (external scan)
- Time and tide, a romance of the moon: being two lectures delivered in the theatre of the London Institution on the afternoon of November 19 and 26, 1888 (1892) (external scan)
- Great astronomers (1895) (external scan)
- The earth's beginning (1901) (external scan)
- The scale of the invisible heavens (1903)
- A popular guide to the heavens (1905)
- The Story of the Sun (1906) (external scan)
- A treatise on spherical astronomy (1908) (external scan)
- In the High Heavens (1910)
- In Starry Realms (1912) (external scan)
- "Gravitation," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 11) (1880)
- "Measurement," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 15) (1883)
- "Nebular Theory," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Articles in Popular Science Monthly
[edit]- "A Glimpse Through the Corridors of Time" in Popular Science Monthly, 20 (February 1882)
- "The Boundaries of Astronomy I" in Popular Science Monthly, 23 (May 1883)
- "The Boundaries of Astronomy II" in Popular Science Monthly, 23 (June 1883)
Works about Ball
[edit]- "Ball, Sir Robert Stawell," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Ball, Robert Stawell," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement, London: Oxford University Press (1927)
- "Ball, Robert Stawell," 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, 1929, 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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