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George Biddell Airy. Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
Table of Contents
PREFACE
2, THE CIRCUS, GREENWICH. NOTE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
APPENDIX
INDEX. CHAPTER I
PERSONAL SKETCH OF GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY
CHAPTER II
FROM HIS BIRTH TO HIS TAKING HIS B.A. DEGREE AT CAMBRIDGE. FROM JULY 27TH 1801 TO JANUARY 18TH 1823
THE ACTS
THE SENATE-HOUSE EXAMINATION
THE COLLEGE HALL
MATHEMATICAL SUBJECTS OF STUDY AND EXAMINATION
CHAPTER III
AT TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, FROM HIS TAKING HIS B.A. DEGREE TO HIS TAKING CHARGE OF THE CAMBRIDGE OBSERVATORY AS PLUMIAN PROFESSOR. FROM JANUARY 18TH, 1823, TO MARCH 15TH, 1828
CHAPTER IV
AT CAMBRIDGE OBSERVATORY. FROM HIS TAKING CHARGE OF THE CAMBRIDGE OBSERVATORY TO HIS RESIDENCE AT GREENWICH OBSERVATORY AS ASTRONOMER ROYAL. FROM MARCH 15TH 1828 TO JAN. 1ST 1836
SIR,
SIR,
SIR,
MY DEAR SIR,
MY DEAR SIR,
MY DEAR MADAM,
CHAPTER V
AT GREENWICH OBSERVATORY—1836 TO 1846
MY DEAR SIR,
CHAPTER VI
AT GREENWICH OBSERVATORY—1846 TO 1856
MY LORD,
MONSIEUR L'ASTRONOME ROYAL,
ST PÉTERSBOURG,
MY LORD,
SIR,
SIR,
DEAR MADAM,
CHAPTER VII
AT GREENWICH OBSERVATORY—1856 TO 1866
DEAR SIR,
MY DEAR SIR,
MY LORD DUKE,
DEAR SIR,
DEAR SIR,
DEAR SIR,
CHAPTER VIII
AT GREENWICH OBSERVATORY—1866 TO 1876
MY LORD,
MY DEAR SIR,
MY DEAR SIR,
MY DEAR MR VICE-CHANCELLOR,
MY DEAR MASTER,
MY DEAR SIR,
DEAR SIR,
MY DEAR SIR,
DEAR SIR,
MY DEAR SIR,
MY DEAR MASTER,
NUMBER OF QUESTIONS AND RIDERS ANSWERED
G.B. AIRY
MY DEAR SIR,
MY DEAR SIR,
GENTLEMEN,
MONSIEUR,
SIRE,
MY DEAR AIRY,
MONCKTON
DEAR SIR,
CHAPTER IX
DEAR SIR,
DEAR SIR,
DEAR SIR GEORGE AIRY,
SIR,
SIR,
SIR,
SIR,
DEAR SIR,
MY DEAR SIR,
MY DEAR SIR,
CHAPTER X
AT THE WHITE HOUSE, GREENWICH. FROM HIS RESIGNATION OF OFFICE ON AUGUST 15TH, 1881, TO HIS DEATH ON JANUARY 2ND, 1892. HISTORY OF HIS LIFE AFTER HIS RESIGNATION OF OFFICE
G.B. AIRY
SIR,
SIR,
APPENDIX
LIST OF PRINTED PAPERS BY G.B. AIRY. LIST OF BOOKS WRITTEN BY G.B. AIRY. PRINTED PAPERS BY G.B. AIRY
SUMMARY OF PRINTED PAPERS BY G.B. AIRY
PRINTED PAPERS BY G.B. AIRY
BOOKS WRITTEN BY G. B. AIRY
INDEX
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George Biddell Airy
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"My command of geometry was tolerably complete, and one way in which I frequently amused myself was by making paper models (most carefully drawn in outline) which were buttoned together without any cement or sewing. Thus I made models, not only of regular solids, regularly irregular solids, cones cut in all directions so as to shew the conic sections, and the like, but also of six-gun batteries, intrenchments and fortresses of various kinds &c.
"From various books I had learnt the construction of the steam-engine: the older forms from the Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; newer forms from modern books. The newest form however (with the sliding steam valve) I learnt from a 6-horse engine at Bawtrey's brewery (in which Mr. Keeling the father of my schoolfellow had acquired a partnership). I frequently went to look at this engine, and on one occasion had the extreme felicity of examining some of its parts when it was opened for repair.
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