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	Sir George Biddell Airy - LoveToKnow 1911
		AIRY, SIR GEORGE BIDDELL (1801-1892), British Astronomer Royal, was born at Alnwick on the 27th of July 1801.
		He came of a long line of Airys who traced their descent back to a family of the same name residing at Kentmere, in Westmorland, in the 14th century; but the branch to which he belonged, having suffered in the civil wars, removed to Lincolnshire, where for several generations they lived as farmers.
		George Airy was educated first at elementary schools in Hereford, and afterwards at Colchester Grammar School.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_George_Biddell_Airy (1630 words)

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		The Airy disc (or Airy disk) is a phenomenon in optics.
		The Airy disc is of importance in physics, optics and astronomy.
		The Rayleigh criterion for barely resolving two objects is that the center of the Airy disc for the first object occurs at the first minimum of the Airy disc of the second.
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	Airy biography
		William Airy was from Lincolnshire and Ann was the daughter of a farmer from Suffolk.
		Airy wondered whether he could afford to compete for the chair when he was advised in 1826 that Turton was leaving, but Peacock persuaded him that the status was more important than the money.
		Airy was appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Observatory.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Airy.html (0 words)

	Sir George Airy
		Behind Airy are two halves of the globe, one marked with the Greenwich meridian and the other with the International Date Line which lies on the diametrically opposite side of the globe from Greenwich.
		The Airy disk is the rounded image of a point source of light, such as a star, as seen through an optical instrument.
		The larger the aperture of the telescope the smaller the Airy disk and hence the better the resolution of the instrument.
	www.ianridpath.com /stamps/airy.htm (256 words)

	George Biddell Airy : George Airy
		He was born at Alnwick, one of a long line of Airys who traced their descent back to a family of the same name residing at Kentmere, in Westmorland, in the 14th century.
		George Airy was educated first at elementary schools in Hereford, and afterwards at Colchester Grammar School[?].
		Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement.
	www.fastload.org /ge/George_Airy.html (1584 words)

	No. 1006: The Neptune Affair
		Challis got the data Adams needed from the royal astronomer, George Airy.
		Airy read Adams's work and sent back a note with a minor question.
		Airy thought the young man was snubbing him.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1006.htm (433 words)

	George Biddell Airy
		Shortly afterwards he undertook the further laborious task of reducing the enormous mass of observations of the moon made at Greenwich during the same period under the direction, successively, of James Bradley, N. Bliss, N. Maskelyne and John Pond, to defray the expense of which a large sum of money was allotted by the Treasury.
		Their immediate result was to show that gravity at the bottom of the mine exceeded that at the top by 1/19286th of its amount, the depth being 1256 feet From this he was led to the final value of 6.566 for the mean density of the earth as compared with that of water (Phil.
		In 1872 Airy conceived the idea of treating the lunar theory in a new way, and at the age of seventy-one he embarked on the prodigious toil which this scheme entailed.
	www.nndb.com /people/766/000096478 (1678 words)

	Airy Rainbow Simulator
		The English Astronomer Royal, George Biddell Airy (1801-1892), approximated the scattered wavefront shape with a cubic form and developed an analytic expression for the rainbow intensities in terms of what are now called Airy integrals or functions.
		Airy's theory gives satisfactory predictions of the observable features of white light rainbows(1) and is computationally very considerably faster than the exact predictions of Mie theory.
		To compute a rainbow for a particular drop size, wavelength and refractive index(3), appropriate values of the Airy functions for each scattering angle are derived by interpolation of the stored values or, where necessary, additional direct computation.
	www.atoptics.co.uk /rainbows/airysim.htm (418 words)

	Airy \| Sir \| George Biddell \| 1801-1892 \| astronomer royal
		George Biddell Airy (1801-1892), an astronomer royal, was influenced in childhood by his educated uncle Arthur Biddell, whose library probably introduced Airy to the sciences.
		Airy had a long-running feud with Charles Babbage (1791-1871) during his career, over a chair which Airy won at Babbage's expense.
		While Airy usually won these disputes, it is far from clear that he was usually right.
	www.nahste.ac.uk /isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0320.html (362 words)

	BBC - History - The Airy Transit Circle
		George Biddell Airy was Astronomer Royal at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich from 1835 to 1881.
		In his time, Airy transformed the observatory, installing some of the most advanced astronomical apparatus of his day and expanding both staff numbers and their workload.
		The Airy Transit Circle, installed in 1850 and first used on 4th January 1851 is emblematic of the revolution in working practice introduced by Airy at the Royal Observatory.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/british/victorians/airy_george_01.shtml (0 words)

	George Airy, Astronomer Royal
		Northumberland-born George Airy (he was born in Alnwick in 1801) could safely lay claim to being the most controversial Astronomer Royal that Britain has ever had.
		The first time Airy was away, the second time he was at dinner and was reluctant to interrupt his meal to meet an unannounced caller.
		Later, when Airy was Director of the Royal Observatory, in 1854, Babbage was a member of the Board of Visitors for the Observatory, and another argument broke out.
	bdaugherty.tripod.com /astronomy/airy.html (0 words)

	Photoshop for Astrophotographers
		It is called the "diffraction" or "spurious" or "Airy" disk, after British Astronomer Royal Sir George Airy.
		Usually, only the brightest part of the Airy disk itself and none of the rings are recorded on film, so the actual size of the Airy disk that would be recorded on film would be less than the numbers given in the table below.
		From this formula, we can see that the linear size of the Airy disk is only dependent on f, the focal ratio of the telescope, and that "faster" optical systems form stars with a smaller diameter Airy disk.
	www.astropix.com /PFA/SAMPLE2/SAMPLE2.HTM (1027 words)

	Diffraction Limited Resolution
		This intensity pattern of constructive and destructive interference rings is known as the Airy diffraction pattern (Figure 1), named after Sir George Airy, the Astronomer Royal of England who first derived it.
		The limit for the telescope's resolution is set by the diffraction at the aperture of the telescope.
		For a point source, like a star, the resulting image is a Airy pattern.
	www.pha.jhu.edu /~jlotz/aoptics/node2.html (399 words)

	Catálogo de Livros através de Título
		George Biddell Airy Autobiografia de Senhor George Biddell Airy
		George Burton Adams A História de Inglaterra da Conquista normanda - para a Morte de John (1066-1216)
		George Robert Aberigh-Mackay Vinte e um Dias na Índia; e, as Séries de Chaleira
	www.gratisbiblio.org /authors.php (1769 words)

	Bibliotheque des Livres (pour Tout)
		George A. Aitken Le Tatler, Volume 1, 1899,
		George Biddell Airy Autobiographie de Sir George Biddell Airy
		George Robert Aberigh-Mackay Vingt et un jours en Inde; et, les Séries de la Théière
	www.freebiblio.org /authors.php (1784 words)

	Lebensdaten von Mathematikern
		D'Arcy Thompson, W. Darwin, George (9.7.1845 - 7.12.1912)
		Klingenberg, Wilhelm P. Klügel, Georg (1739 - 1812)
		von Staudt, Carl Georg Christian (1798 - 1867)
	www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de /~hebisch/cafe/lebensdaten.html (939 words)

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