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
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George Biddell Airy
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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
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George Biddell Airy caricatured by Ape in Vanity Fair Nov 1875
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Original Tay Bridge from the north
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The original Tay Bridge after collapsing
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George Biddell Airy (by John Collier, 1883)
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Memorial in St Mary's Playford
Other websites
- O'Connor, John J. "George Biddell Airy". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - Works by George Biddell Airy at Project Gutenberg
- Awarding of RAS gold medal, 1833: MNRAS 2 (1833) 159
- Awarding of RAS gold medal, 1846: MNRAS 7 (1846) 64
- Eric W. Weisstein, Airy, George (1801-1892) at ScienceWorld.
- Sir George Biddell Airy (1858). 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: Designed for the use of students in the university. Macmillan and co.
- Full texts of some of the papers by Airy are available at Gallica: bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France