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George Biddell Airy

George Biddell Airy.

Sir George Biddell Airy (27 July 1801–2 January 1892) was an English mathematician and astronomer, 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 at the location of the prime meridian. His reputation has been tarnished by allegations that, through his inaction, Britain lost the opportunity of priority in the discovery of Neptune.

  • On sound and atmospheric vibrations with the mathematical elements of music, 1871

George Biddell Airy Media

  • George Biddell Airy

  • Computer-generated image simulating an Airy Disk

  • Airy's Transit Circle in the Transit Circle Room of the Royal Greenwich Observatory; for a hundred years from 1884 to 1984, it marked the Prime meridian of the world, or more accurately, the Prime Meridian was marked by or derived from it.

  • The Prime Meridian in Greenwich (1884–1984); the telescope shown above left is behind the glass

  • George Biddell Airy caricatured by Ape in Vanity Fair Nov 1875

  • Original Tay Bridge from the north

  • The original Tay Bridge after collapsing

  • George Biddell Airy (by John Collier, 1883)

  • Memorial in St Mary's Playford

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