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Paperback Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton Robert Stawell Ball Book

ISBN: 1545081239

ISBN13: 9781545081235

Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton Robert Stawell Ball

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Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) was an Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who made important contributions to mechanics, optics, and algebra. As a teenager, he mastered parts of Newton's Principia and studied Laplace's celestial mechanics treatise. When barely 22, Hamilton became a professor of astronomy at University of Dublin, however he was more interested in theoretical rather than practical astronomy. His studies of mechanical...

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