Author:George Biddell Airy

George Biddell Airy
(1801–1892)

George Biddell Airy

Works

• Mathematical tracts on physical astronomy, 1826 (external scan)
• Mathematical tracts on the lunar and planetary theories, 1831 (external scan)
• Gravitation, 1834 (external scan)
• A catalogue of circumpolar stars, 1838 (editor) (external scan)
• On the difference of longitude between the observatories of Brussels and Greeenwich, 1855 (short work) (external scan)
• A treatise on trigonometry, 1855 (external scan)
• Magnetical errors, compensations, & corrections, with special reference to iron ships and their compasses, 1864 (external scan)
• Popular Astronomy: A Series of Lectures Delivered at Ipswich (1866, 5th edition) (external scan)
• An elementary treatise on partial differential equations, 1866 (external scan)
• On the undulatory theory of optics, 1866 (external scan)
• Verification and extension of La Caille's arc of meridian at the Cape of Good Hope, 1866 (editor) (external scan)
• A treatise on magnetism, 1870 (external scan)
• On sound and atmospheric vibrations with the mathematical elements of music. 1871 (external scan)
• On the algebraical and numerical theory of errors of observations and the combination of observations, 1875 (external scan)
• Notes on the earlier Hebrew scriptures, 1876 (external scan)
• Reduction of twenty years' photographic records made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1878 (external scan)
• Account of observations of the transit of Venus, 1874, December 8 Published 1881 (editor) (external scan)
• Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy, 1896 (external scan)
• The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, 1904 (commentary) (external scan)

Translations

• On Encke's Comet. Encke's dissertation contained in no. CCX and CCXI of the Astronomische Nachrichten by Johann Franz Encke (1832)

Works about Airy

• Great astronomers by Robert Stawell Ball, 1907 (external scan)
• Lectures on ten British physicists of the nineteenth century by Alexander Macfarlane, 1916 (external scan)
• "Sketch of Sir G. B. Airy" in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (May 1873)
• "Airy, Sir George Biddell," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Obituary: George Biddell Airy" in Popular Science Monthly, 40 (April 1892)
• "Airy, George Biddell," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1901) in 3 vols.
• "Airy, Sir George Biddell," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Airy, Sir George Biddell," in A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists (pp. 11−12), (ed.) by Joseph McCabe, London: Watts & Co. (1920)
• "Airy, George Biddell," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)