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	Berkshire History: Biographies: Francis Baily (1774-1844)
		Francis Baily, the eminent astronomer, was the third of eight children of Mr.
		Baily, accordingly, obtained, from the Royal Astronomical Society in 1833, authority to construct for them a tubular scale of five feet, the accuracy of which had been ascertained by repeated comparisons with the standard yard, when the latter was irreparably injured in the conflagration of the houses of parliament on 16th October 1834.
		Baily’s divergence into a new field was marked by the publication, in 1812, of 'A New Chart of History,' accompanied by a 'Description' - of which five editions were sold in three years - exhibiting the chief revolutions of empire during the historical period.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /bios/fbaily.html (2822 words)

	Francis Baily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis Baily (April 28, 1774– August 30, 1844), English astronomer, was born at Newbury, Berkshire.
		Baily's Account of the Rev. John Flamsteed (1835) is of fundamental importance to the scientific history of that time.
		His observations of "Baily's Beads," during an annular eclipse of the sun on May 15, 1836, at Inch Bonney in Roxburghshire, started the modern series of eclipse-expeditions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Baily (324 words)

	EDWARD HODGES BAILY - LoveToKnow Article on EDWARD HODGES BAILY
		Baily died at Holloway on the 22nd of May 1867.
		EDWARD HODGES BAILY - LoveToKnow Article on EDWARD HODGES BAILY
		His father, who was a celebrated carver of figureheads for ships, destined him for a commercial life, but even at school the boy showed his natural taste and remarkable talents by producing numerous wax models and busts of his schoolfellows, and afterwards, when placed in a mercantile house, still carried on his favorite employment.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BAILY_EDWARD_HODGES.htm (240 words)

	Baily's beads - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This effect is called Baily's Beads, named in honor of Francis Baily who first noted the phenomenon in 1836.
		While Baily's Beads are briefly seen for a few seconds at the central path of the eclipse, their effect is maximized near the eclipse limits to 1-2 minutes.
		As the moon "grazes" by the Sun during the eclipse, the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baily's_beads (139 words)

	Virtual Science Center
		But it was Francis Baily’s widely–disseminated description of the phenomenon during the annular eclipse of 15 May 1836 that led to their bearing his name thereafter.
		Baily’s beads also quickly succumb to the encroaching moon, winking out one or two at a time until totality is fulfilled; the disappearance of the last bead marks the moment of second contact and the beginning of totality.
		Unlike Baily’s beads, the diamond ring, for all its spectacle, is not a true phenomenon of totality but a product of the final moments of the pre–totality partial phases and their post–totality resurgence.
	www.chabotspace.org /vsc/planetarium/eclipses/observeeclipses/chapter9.asp (1223 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - eclipse
		Baily’s Beads, phenomenon associated with total eclipses of the sun, first described in the 19th century by the British astronomer Francis Baily....
		Baily’s Beads, phenomenon associated with total eclipses of the sun
		Eclipse, in astronomy, the obscuring of one celestial body by another, particularly that of the sun or a planetary satellite.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /eclipse.html (105 words)

	Baily, Francis -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		An English bishop and historian, Francis Godwin wrote the first story of space travel in English literature, The Man in the Moone: or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither by Domingo Gonsales, the Speedy Messenger.
		Called “the swamp fox,” Francis Marion was one of the boldest and most dashing figures of the American Revolution.
		Baily retired from a successful business career in 1825 and turned his energies to science.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9011823?tocId=9011823 (829 words)

	Baily Coat of Arms
		Baily is one of the many new names that came to England following the Norman Conquest of 1066.
		The name Baily is for a person who held the civil office of the same name in Normandy.
		When did the Baily family first arrive in the United States?
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/baily-coat-arms.htm (1234 words)

	Solar Eclipses - Enchanted Learning Software
		They were named for the British astronomer Francis Baily (1774-1844), one of the founders of the Royal Astronomical Society.
		Baily's beads are caused by light shining through valleys on the edge of the moon.
		Baily's beads (often spelled Bailey's beads) are bead-like bursts of light that appear about 15 seconds before and after totality during a solar eclipse.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/astronomy/sun/solareclipses.shtml (522 words)

	Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.
		Francis Baily, the astronomer, laid on the table and expounded to members a collection of original letters addressed by Flamsteed to Abraham Sharp relating to the publication of Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis.
		Baily, an interesting figure, who made perilous travels in the wilder parts of America as a young man and who at the age of fifty-one had retired from the Stock Exchange with a fortune to devote himself entirely to astronomy, has several claims to fame.
		Baily, in his energetic search for manuscript materials both in private and institutional hands and in his meticulous listing and citation of these sources seems to me to fill a pioneer role.
	www.historyofmedicine.com /archives/history_of_science_book_collecting/history_biblio_science_england/history_biblio_science_england.shtml (1652 words)

	Francis
		Francis means “free.” The Franks were a Germanic tribe in Western Europe who's name meant “free.” Their name gave rise to the word and surname Franklin, or “freeman.” The Franks eventually settled in what is now called France.
		Francis is occasionally, mistakenly, given as a feminine name, in place of the identically pronounced Frances.
		It remained uncommon until the 16th century, declined in the 17th and 18th centuries, and was revived in the 19th.
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/f/francis.html (261 words)

	re: EH.R: First use of Net Present Value
		Baily was Francis Baily sometime actuarial consultant to the Sun Life Insurance Office and author of, The Doctrine of Life Annuities and Assurances (1810).
		What they provide is a matrix based on the outcome/value at different rates of interest.In the odd entry in Greg's Charity Commission volumes I have seen references to alternative tables, namely Inwood's and Bail(e)y's tables.
	www.eh.net /lists/archives/eh.res/oct-2002/0022.php (255 words)

	Paul D. Maley - Ring of Fire Expeditions
		At all annular eclipses and some total eclipses we attempt observation of the marvelous Baily's Beads (named for Sir Francis Baily after his observation of a solar eclipse in 1836) which appear at central eclipse.
		These are the Baily's Beads which appear as dazzling points of sunlight of varying size.
		The NASA JSC Astronomical Society's public outreach allows anyone who has an interest in eclipse observing to join our expeditions and also to participate in the Baily's Beads research project.
	www.eclipsetours.com /science.html (1507 words)

	Active Skim View of: 8. The American Eclipses of 1780 and 1806
		In the opening chapter we met Francis Baily, the British astronomer who in 1836 gave a description of the luminous phenomenon seen just as totality begins and ends, universally known as “Baily s beads.” It so happened that Samuel Williams noticed these beads of light during the 1780 eclipse.
		BAILY’S BEADS SEEN IN 1780 One may or may not consider another outcome of the eclipse expedition to Maine in 1780 to be an embarrassment.
		All worked precisely as they should, although there have been questions raised as to whether the times of the eclipse contacts reported by Williams, and the extent of the arc of the Sun seen as remaining uncovered, were consistent with the stipulated observatory site.
	www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=030907438X&chap=174-195 (1235 words)

	RAS MSS Baily—Glaisher
		BAILY Letters and papers of Francis Baily (1774–1844).
		Bound volume of 414 ff: copies of letters from John Flamsteed (124) and Joseph Crosthwait (60) to Abraham Sharp, 1702–30, prepared under Baily’s direction and presented by him to the RAS, 10 Jan. 1834, with an introduction by Baily.
		They include letters exchanged between Baily and officials of the Admiralty, 1 from G. Airy, 1834, and 1 from H. Taylor, 1834.
	www.ras.org.uk /html/library/ArchiveMS/mss1.html (1222 words)

	Effects During a Total Solar Eclipse
		, named after Francis Baily, the 18th century English amateur astronomer who was the first to draw attention to them.
		Baily's beads make their brief appearance up to 15 seconds before totality.
		Baily's beads appear, followed by a thin crescent of the Sun.
	www.earthview.com /tutorial/effects.htm (774 words)

	BAILY: Genealogy Queries
		BAILY : Seeking descendants (legitimate or otherwise) of Samuel Clark Baily, born 1852 in Clayton County, Iowa, died 1932 in Clayton County, Iowa.
		BAILY search results at Interment.net - Burial records and tombstone inscriptions from thousands of cemeteries across the world.
		BAILY : BAILEY : Looking for sibblings that were adopted from Renee Baily or Bailey not sure of the correct spelling of surname.
	www.cousinconnect.com /p/a/0/s/BAILY (474 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Bead (Anglo-Saxon, bed, a prayer).
		This was first observed by Francis Baily, whence the name of the phenomenon.
		When the disc of the moon has (in an eclipse) reduced that of the sun to a thin crescent, the crescent assumes the appearance of a string of beads.
		Single joints of the articulated stems of encrinites.
	www.bartleby.com /81/1510.html (208 words)

	Royal Astronomical Society (London)
		At this first meeting Daniel Moore was elected to be Chairman, Francis Baily was elected to be the Secretary, and John Herschel was asked to draw up an address which would explain the objectives of the new Society.
		Herschel handed the address to Baily on the evening of Wednesday 19 January and by Monday 24 January it had been printed (Baily thought the printer had taken far too long and had expected it to be ready by Saturday 22 January).
		Officers were elected at this meeing including the Duke of Somerset as President, Colebrooke and William Herschel as Vice-Presidents, Pearson as Treasure, Babbage and Baily as Secretaries, and John Herschel as Foreign Secretary.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Societies/Astronomical.html (1082 words)

	STEELE, James
		STEELE, GEN. JAMES, the son of William Steele, Jr., and Abigail, daughter of Francis Baily, was born in Sadsbury township, Lancaster county, PA., in 1763.
		He represented Chester county in the Pennsylvania legislative sessions of 1809 and 1810, served in the war of 1812-14 in the capacity of colonel, and for meritorious conduct promoted to inspector general of the State troops with the rank of brigadier.
		Their children were: Frank, who married a Miss Barney, of Baltimore, a granddaughter of Commodore Barney; Sarah, married Governor Sibley, of Minnesota: Rachel, married General Johnson, of St. Paul; John, a physician of prominence, married Miss McClung, of Lancaster county, Pa.; Mary, unmarried, and Abby, married Dr. Potts.
	maley.net /transcription/Sketches/BEsteele.htm (255 words)

	Baily's beads
		They are named after the English astronomer Francis Baily (1774-1844) who first drew attention to them in 1836.
		Small “beads” of sunlight that shine through the valleys on the limb of the Moon in the instant before (or after) totality in a solar eclipse.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/B/Bailys_beads.html (120 words)

	The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography: Baily, Francis (1774-1844)@ HighBeam Research
		Baily was born in Newbury, Berkshire, on 28 April 1774.
		English astronomer who is best known for his discovery of the phenomenon called 'Baily's beads'.
		He began a seven-year apprenticeship in 1788 with a firm of merchant bankers in London, but as soon as his apprenticeship ended he set out to explore unsettled parts of North America.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:99915728&... (176 words)

	03-t3newton-bib.htm
		A photo-reprint of Baily (1835) and (1837), excluding the stellar catalogue.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/rhatch/pages/01-Courses/other-courses/03-t3newton-bib.htm (2658 words)

	A History of Charles Hammond & Son
		Francis BAILY was elected to the Stock Exchange Committee
		Francis BAILY took his brother Arthur into partnership and the firm became Francis & Arthur BAILY
		Francis BAILY died aged 70 at 32 Tavistock Place, St. Pancras
	freespace.virgin.net /david.hammond1/chamandson.htm (230 words)

	BAILY, FRANCIS (1774-1844) - Online Information article about BAILY, FRANCIS (1774-1844)
		BAILY, FRANCIS (1774-1844) - Online Information article about BAILY, FRANCIS (1774-1844)
		July 1842, observed by Baily himself at See also:
		notice of " Baily's Beads," during an See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAI_BAR/BAILY_FRANCIS_1774_1844_.html (643 words)

	His-Astr - Visiting
		Two English Astronomers, William Wales and Francis Baily accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage in 1772.
		They set up their telescope in Concordia Gardens, a social club that used to be behind St Mary's Cathedral in Cape Town-close to the spot used for this purpose by Mason and Dixon.
		The transit was successfully observed from Concordia Gardens, a social club that used to be behind St Mary's Cathedral in Cape Town.
	www.saao.ac.za /assa/html/his-astr_-_visiting.html (1347 words)

	Genealogy Data
		Baily, Ellis B. Birth : 21 NOV 1824
		Baily, Kenneth G. Birth : 8 SEP 1900
		For more information about GED2WWW or the GNU General Public License visit the GED2WWW webpage at http://www.lesandchris.com/ged2www.
	members.aol.com /dwpatton01/dat78.html (133 words)

	Gompertz
		In particular he assisted Francis Baily in producing a catalogue of fixed stars.
		Gompertz assisted Baily in calculating positions of stars which was eventually published as Baily's Catalogue giving the constants for 3000 fixed stars.
		This venture began at a Council meeting on 30 November 1820 in Baily's house when a request for accurate tables was put forward to which the Council agreed to do their best.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /history/Mathematicians/Gompertz.html (859 words)

	AIP Niels Bohr Library
		Report on the new standard scale of the Royal Astronomical Society / by Franics Baily.
		If you are not immediately redirected, please click here
	www.aip.org /history/catalog/21246.html (36 words)

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