Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy, George Biddell Airy [dark books to read TXT] 📗

Soc.
at Larissa, and the Eclipse of Thales. (Memoirs.)
With an Appendix on the Eclipse of
Stiklastad.

1857 June 18 Account of the Construction of the New Phil. Trans.
National Standard of Length, and of its
principal copies.

1857 Dec. 5 Letter to the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge
University regarding Smith's Prizes.

1857 Dec. 7 On the Substitution of Methods founded Camb. Phil. Soc.
on Ordinary Geometry for Methods
based on the General Doctrine of
Proportions, in the treatment of some
Geometrical Problems

1857 Description of the Galvanic Chronographic Gr. Obs. 1856,
Apparatus of the Royal Observatory, App.
Greenwich.

1858 Mar. 8 Suggestions for Observation of the Annular
Eclipse of the Sun on 1858, March 14-15.

1858 Mar. 12 Note on Oltmann's Calculation of the R. Astr. Soc.
Eclipse of Thales. Also On a Method (Month. Not.)
of very approximately representing the
Projection of a Great Circle upon
Mercator's Chart.

1858 May The Atlantic Cable Problem. Naut. Mag.

1858 May 20 Report of the Ordnance Survey
Commission; together with Minutes of
Evidence and Appendix.

1858 June 5 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
Board of Visitors.

1858 June 16 On the Mechanical Conditions of the Phil. Mag.
Deposit of a Submarine Cable.

1858 July Instructions and Chart for Observations R. Astr. Soc.
of Mars in right ascension at the (Special.)
Opposition of 1860 for obtaining the
Measure of the Sun's Distance.

1858 Aug. 20 On the Advantageous Employment of Photog. Notes.
Stereoscopic Photographs for the
representation of Scenery.

1858 Nov. 6 On the "Draft of Proposed New Statutes Athenaeum.
for Trinity College, Cambridge."

1858 Nov. 20 Letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Cambridge, offering the
Sheepshanks Endowment.

1858 Dec. 6 Suggestion of a Proof of the Theorem Camb. Phil. Soc.
that Every Algebraic Equation has a
Root.

1859 Manual of Astronomy--for the Admiralty. Parly. Paper.

1859 Feb. 1 Letter to Lord Monteagle relating to the
Standards of Weights and Measures.

1859 Feb. 4 Remarks on Mr Cayley's Trigonometrical Phil. Mag.
Theorem, and on Prof. Challis's Proof
that Equations have Roots.

1859 Mar. 11 On the Movement of the Solar System in R. Astr. Soc.
Space. (Memoirs.)

1859 Apr. 8 On the Apparent Projection of Stars upon R. Astr. Soc.
the Moon's Disc in Occultations. Also (Month. Not.)
Comparison of the Lunar Tables of
Burckhardt and Hansen with Observations
of the Moon made at the Royal
Observatory, Greenwich.

1859 Apr. 8 On the Apparent Projection of Stars upon R. Astr. Soc.
the Moon's Disc in Occultations. (Memoirs.)

1859 June 4 Report of the Astronomer Royal to the
Board of Visitors.

1859 June 10 Abstract of Maxwell's Paper "On the R. Astr. Soc.
Stability of the Motion of Saturn's Rings." (Month. Not.)

1859 July 8 Corrections of the Elements of the Moon's R. Astr. Soc.
Orbit, deduced from the Lunar Observations (Memoirs.)
made at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich
from 1750 to 1851.

1859 Sept. 10 On the Invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar. Athenaeum.
(Answer to Mr Lewin.)

1859 Nov. 12 On Iron Ships--The Royal Charter. Athenaeum.
(Answer to Archibald Smith's Remarks.)

1859 Nov. Circular requesting observations of small
Planets.

1859 Dec. 9 Notice of the approaching Total Eclipse of R. Astr. Soc.
the Sun of July 18,1860, and suggestions (Month. Not.)
for observation.

1859 Dec. 12 Supplement to A Proof of the Theorem Camb. Phil. Soc.
that Every Algebraic Equation has a Root.

1860 Jan. 13 Description of the New Equatoreal at the R. Astr. Soc.
Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Also (Month. Not.)
Abstract of an Essay by Gen. T.F. de
Schubert on the Figure of the Earth.

1860 Jan. 28 On the Claudian or Plautian Invasion of Athenaeum
Britain.

1860 Feb. 2 Examination of Navy 2-foot Telescopes at
the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1860,
Jan. 31 to Feb. 2.

1860 Feb. 11 Report on the Instrumental Equipments