Author:Agnes Mary Clerke

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Agnes Mary Clerke (1842–1907)

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British astronomer and writer, mainly in the field of astronomy; sister of Ellen Mary Clerke

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "A. M. C."

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This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901.
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "A. M. C."

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This author wrote articles for the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, and the list on this page is complete.

Agnes Mary Clerke

Works

• Popular History Of Astronomy During The Nineteenth Century (1885 1st ed.) (1893 3rd ed.) (1902 4th ed.)
• The System of the Stars (1890, 1st ed.) (1903, 2nd ed.)
• Familiar Studies In Homer (1892) (external scan)
• (The Concise Knowledge) Astronomy [with A FOWLER & J E GORE] (1898)
• The Herschels and Modern Astronomy (1901) (external scan)
• Problems In Astrophysics (1903)
• Modern Cosmogonies (1905) (external scan)

Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900

• Adrain, Robert
• Anderson, Alexander (1582-1619?)
• Anderson, George (1760-1796)
• Anderson, George (fl.1740)
• Anderson, Robert (fl.1668-1696)
• Andrews, Henry (1743-1820)
• Atwood, George
• Aubert, Alexander
• Aylesbury, Thomas (1576-1657)
• Babbage, Charles
• Baily, Francis
• Ball, William
• Barlow, Peter
• Beaufoy, Mark
• Bernard, Edward
• Bevis, John
• Bird, John (1709-1776)
• Birmingham, John
• Bishop, George
• Black, Joseph
• Blair, Robert (d.1828)
• Bliss, Nathaniel
• Boyle, Robert
• Bradley, James
• Breen, James
• Brinkley, John
• Brisbane, Thomas Makdougall-
• Broun, John Allan
• Brühl, John Maurice
• Burton, Charles Edward
• Caldecott, John
• Carrington, Richard Christopher
• Cary, William
• Catton, Thomas
• Challis, James
• Charnock, Thomas
• Chary, Chintamanny Ragoonatha
• Chester, Robert (fl.1182)
• Chillingworth, John (d.1445)
• Chillingworth, John (fl.1360)
• Cockayne, William
• Coddington, Henry
• Coggeshall, Henry
• Collingwood, Roger
• Collins, John (1625-1683)
• Cooke, Thomas (1807-1868)
• Cooper, Edward Joshua
• Costard, George
• Cotes, Roger
• Cunningham, Timothy
• Dalton, John (1766-1844)
• Dawes, William Rutter
• Dick, Thomas
• Digges, Leonard (d.1571?)
• Dollond, George
• Dollond, John
• Dollond, Peter
• Drew, John
• Dunlop, James (1795-1848)
• Dunthorne, Richard
• Fallows, Fearon
• Ferguson, James (1710-1776)
• Fisher, George
• Flamsteed, John
• Goodricke, John
• Grant, James William
• Gregory, David (1661-1708)
• Gregory, James (1638-1675)
• Groombridge, Stephen
• Grubb, Thomas
• Hall, Chester Moor
• Halley, Edmund
• Halton, Immanuel
• Harriot, Thomas
• Henderson, Thomas
• Herschel, Caroline Lucretia
• Herschel, John Frederick William
• Herschel, William
• Hooke, Robert
• Hornsby, Thomas
• Horrocks, Jeremiah
• Irvine, William (1743-1787)
• Jacob, William Stephen
• Johnson, Manuel John
• Kirwan, Richard
• Lamont, Johann von
• Landen, John
• Lassell, William
• Lawson, Henry
• Lax, William
• Leadbetter, Charles
• Lloyd, William Forster
• Long, Roger
• Lubbock, John William
• Luby, Thomas
• Lynn, George
• Lynn, Thomas
• Machin, John (d.1751)
• Maclear, Thomas
• Maddy, Watkin
• Main, Robert
• Main, Thomas John
• Mann, William
• Maskelyne, Nevil
• Melvill, Thomas
• Michell, John
• Miller, William Allen
• Mitchell, James (1786?-1844)
• Moivre, Abraham de
• Molyneux, Samuel
• Moore, Jonas (1617-1679)
• Murray, Robert (d.1673)
• Narrien, John
• Neile, William
• Newall, Robert Stirling
• Nichol, John Pringle
• Parker, George (1697-1764)
• Parsons, William (1800-1867)
• Pearson, William
• Pell, John
• Perry, Stephen Joseph
• Phelps, Thomas
• Pigott, Edward
• Pigott, Nathaniel
• Pond, John
• Pope, Walter
• Pound, James
• Pritchard, Charles
• Ramsden, Jesse
• Reeve, Henry (1780-1814)
• Reeve, Henry (1813-1895)
• Sheepshanks, Richard
• Short, James
• Smith, Henry John Stephen
• South, James
• Stone, Edward James
• Taylor, Thomas Glanville
• Troughton, Edward
• Ussher, Henry (d.1790)
• Vince, Samuel
• Wallis, John (1616-1703)
• Whipple, George Mathews
• Wing, Vincent

1901 Supplement

• Adams, John Couch
• Airy, George Biddell
• Grant, Robert (1814-1892)
• Hind, John Russell
• Smyth, Charles Piazzi
• Symons, George James

Contributions to 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

• "Astronomy," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (History)
• "Brahe, Tycho," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Cassini," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Copernicus, Nicolaus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Delisle, Joseph Nicolas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Dick, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Donati, Giovanni Battista," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Encke, Johann Franz," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Flamsteed, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Galileo Galilei," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Halley, Edmund," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Hansen, Peter Andreas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Herschel, Sir Frederick William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (with Charles Pritchard)
• "Herschel, Sir John Frederick William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (with Charles Pritchard)
• "Hevelius, Johann," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Hipparchus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Horrocks, Jeremiah," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Huggins, Sir William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Huygens, Christiaan," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Kepler, Johann," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Lagrange, Joseph Louis," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Laplace, Pierre Simon," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Leverrier, Urbain Jean Joseph," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Maskelyne, Nevil," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Mayer, Johann Tobias," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Mouchez, Amédée Ernest Barthélémy," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Regiomontanus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Smyth, Charles Piazzi," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Stone, Edward James," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Zodiac," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• & c.

Contributions to the Catholic Encyclopedia

• Astronomy
• Astronomy in the Bible

Works about Clerke

• "Obituary: Agnes Mary Clerke," in The Times (1907)
• "Agnes Mary Clerke," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Clerke, Agnes Mary," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Clerke, Agnes Mary," in Dictionary of National Biography Second Supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1912) in 3 vols.
• Agnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke - An Appreciation by Lady Huggins, Hon. Mem. R.A.S. (1907) (external scan)