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George Biddell Airy

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Sir George Biddell Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer, and the seventh Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881. His many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of two-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.

Books

Numerical Lunar Theory
Numerical Lunar Theory
George Biddell Airy
The Invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar
The Invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar
George Biddell Airy, Edward Cardwell, Thomas Lewin
On Sound and Atmospheric Vibrations
On Sound and Atmospheric Vibrations
George Biddell Airy
On the Undulatory Theory of Optics
On the Undulatory Theory of Optics
George Biddell Airy
Tides and Waves
Tides and Waves
George Biddell Airy
Astronomical observations made at the Observatory of Cambridge
Astronomical observations made at the Observatory of Cambridge
George Biddell Airy
Lecture on the Pendulum Experiments at Harton Pit, etc
Lecture on the Pendulum Experiments at Harton Pit, etc
George Biddell Airy
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
George Biddell Airy
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
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
George Biddell Airy
Description of the Reflex Zenith Tube of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Description of the Reflex Zenith Tube of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
George Biddell Airy
The Lady of the Lake
The Lady of the Lake
Andrew Lang, Walter Scott, George Biddell Airy
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
George Biddell Airy
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
George Biddell Airy
Numerical Lunar Theory
Numerical Lunar Theory
George Biddell Airy
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
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
George Biddell Airy

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