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	George Biddell Airy
		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.
		Airy's discovery of a new inequality in the motions of Venus and the earth is in some respects his most remarkable achievement.
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	Sir George Biddell Airy
		Sir George Biddell Airy was an astronomer who contributed to the field of optics during the nineteenth century.
		Sir George Biddell Airy (1801 — 1892) was a British astronomer who made significant contributions to the field of optics throughout the nineteenth century.
		Airy was introduced to the sciences as a child while being educated by his uncle, Arthur Biddell [2].
	www.u.arizona.edu /~mccorkel/airy.html (999 words)

	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)

	Learn more about George Biddell Airy in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		In June 1835 Airy was appointed Astronomer Royal in succession to John Pond, and began his long career at the national observatory which constitutes his chief title to fame.
		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.
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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 (2411 words)

	Airy, Sir George Biddell
		Airy improved the theory of the orbital motions of Venus and of the Moon, and in 1871 he used a water-filled telescope to test the effect of the Earth's motion on the aberration of light.
		Airy in 1827 was the first to attempt to correct astigmatism in the human eye (his own) by use of a cylindrical eyeglass lens.
		The Airy disk, the central spot of light in the diffraction pattern of a point light source, is named for him.
	www.phy.bg.ac.yu /web_projects/giants/airy.html (209 words)

	Biddell Airy
		"On September 15, 1842, the British Astronomer Royal, Sir George Biddell Airy, K.C.B., M.A., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., responded to a query from the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
		Airy improved the theory of the orbital motions of Venus and of the Moon, and in 1871 he used a water-filled telescope to test the effect of the Earth's motion on the aberration of light.
		Airy in 1827 was the first to attempt to correct astigmatism in the human eye (his own) by use of a cylindrical eyeglass lens.
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	Airy, George Biddell (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Airy was born in Alnwick, Northumberland, and studied mathematics at Cambridge, where he became professor of mathematics 1826 and of astronomy 1828.
		Airy's mathematical skills were used in establishing the border between Canada and the USA and the boundaries of the states of Oregon and Maine.
		His scientific expertise was also called on during the launch of the steamship Great Eastern, the laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable, and the construction of the chimes of the clock in the tower of the Houses of Parliament ('Big Ben').
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/A/Airy/1.html (236 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/George Biddell Airy
		Sir George Biddell Airy (or Airey) FRS (July 27, 1801–January 2, 1892) was British Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881.
		George Airy was educated first at elementary schools in Hereford, and afterwards at Colchester Royal Grammar School.
		In 1847 an altazimuth was erected, designed by Airy to enable observations of the moon to be made not only on the meridian, but whenever it might be visible.
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	George Airy
		George Airy was born in Alnwick, Northumberland England on July 27, 1801.
		Airy made significant contributions in mathematics, astronomy, and optics He is important in the development of statistics because of his seminal work on a theory of errors, which was published in his book
		Airy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1836 and was elected president of the society in 1851.
	www.math.uah.edu /stat/biographies/Airy.xhtml (164 words)

	The Infidels - George Biddell 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 Royal Grammar School.
		In June 1835 Airy was appointed Astronomer Royal in succession to John Pond, and began his long career at the national observatory which constitutes his chief title to fame.
	www.theinfidels.org /zunb-georgeairy.htm (1668 words)

	Sir George B. Airy - Vanity Fair
		George B. Airy became director of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, with the associated title of Astronomer Royal, in 1835 when he was 34, and held the post until his retirement in 1881 at the age of 80.
		It is the position of the Airy transit circle that defines the Greenwich meridian and since 1884 that meridian has been the basis of the world’s timekeeping and navigation.
		As well as his astronomical duties Airy was widely consulted by the British government on various scientific matters and was the leading government scientist of the day.
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	Sir George Biddell Airy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Airy's main work was in astronomy, but he was involved in many other areas including magnetism and horology.
		Airy was liberal in his views on religion in the sense that he was independent in his own interpretations of scripture.
		Airy wrote that he owed Calenso a debt for an intellectual stimulus for searching out the truth, even though he did not use it the same way as Calenso.
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	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.
		Nicaragua’s Airy stamp shows the great man next to a diagram of the so-called Airy disk, an optical effect that occurs in telescopes and microscopes and which he investigated mathematically, deriving the equations that describe it.
		The Airy disk is the rounded image of a point source of light, such as a star, as seen through an optical instrument.
	www.ianridpath.com /stamps/airy.htm (256 words)

	Airy
		George Airy was educated at Cambridge where he was Senior Wrangler (the top First Class student) in 1823.
		In 1828 Airy was appointed Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Observatory.
		George B Airy was elected to the Royal Society of London in 1836.
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	Humanarchives.org :: George Biddell Airy
		Sir George Biddell Airy (or Airey) FRS (July 27, 1801 January 2, 1892) was British Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881.
		Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy by George Biddell Airy...
		George B. Airy became director of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, with the associated title of Astronomer Royal, in 1835 when he was 34, and held the post...
	georgeairy.humanarchives.org (460 words)

	SIR GEORGE BIDDELL AIR... - Online Information article about SIR GEORGE BIDDELL AIR...
		The formidable undertaking of reducing the accumulated planetary observations made at Greenwich from 1750 to 183o was already in progress under Airy's supervision when he became Astronomer Royal.
		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 J.
		For this work Airy received in 1848 a testimonial from the Royal Astronomical Society, and it at once led to the discovery by P.
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	Sir George Biddell Airy
		Airy served as astronomer royal and director of the Greenwich Observatory from 1835 to 1881.
		He was known to his contemporaries more as an administrator (somewhat unliked due to his strict control of funds) than as an astronomer or mathematician.
		He nevertheless had strong mathematical ties graduating as Senior Wrangler from Cambridge in 1823 and at one time holding the Lucasian professorship (Barrow and Newton were the first and second holders of the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge).
	www.math.wfu.edu /~kuz/Stamps/Airy/Airy.html (117 words)

	George Airy
		Greenwich Mean Time, measured using Airy's telescope positioned on the line of zero longitude in his observatory, became Britain's legal time in 1880.
		Airy also began the practice of sending out time signals by telegraph.
		Airy was a member of the four-man commission which in 1846 selected the standard railway track gauge, rejecting the wider Brunel gauge used on the GWR.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /alan.myers/airy.htm (114 words)

	Documents by George Biddell Airy on research with pendulumsDocuments by George Biddell Airy on the subject of Pendulums (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George Biddell Airy was the British Astronomer Royal in the middle of the nineteenth century.
		To quote Maurice Allais, "The Airy effect is a major factor in the theory of the Allais pendulum".
		This paper details a series of precise experiments that Airy made in a coal-pit in the north of England, with the aim of deriving the mass of the Earth.
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	Airy on Pendulums and Balance Wheels
		Since the theory is applicable to every case in which a pendulum is acted on by small forces, it can be applied to determine the effect produced on the motion of the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, by the machinery which serves to maintain that motion.
		The escapements of clocks in general use may be divided into the three following classes: recoil escapements, dead-beat escapements: and the escapements in which the action of the wheels raises a small weight which by its descent accelerates the pendulum.
		Perhaps then I may be allowed to suggest, on mere theoretical considerations, a form for the escapement of clocks: similar in its principles to the best detached escapements of chronometers, and apparently likely to possess the same advantages.
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	Airy on Pendulums and Balance Wheels
		Since the theory is applicable to every case in which a pendulum is acted on by small forces, it can be applied to determine the effect produced on the motion of the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, by the machinery which serves to maintain that motion.
		The escapements of clocks in general use may be divided into the three following classes: recoil escapements, dead-beat escapements: and the escapements in which the action of the wheels raises a small weight which by its descent accelerates the pendulum.
		Perhaps then I may be allowed to suggest, on mere theoretical considerations, a form for the escapement of clocks: similar in its principles to the best detached escapements of chronometers, and apparently likely to possess the same advantages.
	www.besslerwheel.com /airy/Airy_on_Pendulums_and_Balance_Wheels.html (4694 words)

	Airy, George Biddell (1801-1892)
		In 1826 Airy was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (Newton’s old position) at Cambridge, and, two years later, Plumian Professor of Astronomy.
		As the seventh Astronomer Royal (1835-1881) he turned the Royal Greenwich Observatory into a model of efficiency and a leading center for positional astronomy; the transit telescope he installed defines the location of 0° longitude on Earth.
		However, Airy’s arrogance and disinterest in basic research held up the confirmation of an eighth planet (Neptune) based on predictions by John Adams and also left Greenwich a late-starter in the fields of spectroscopy and astrophysics.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/A/Airy.html (214 words)

	Airy, George Biddell, Sir biography - S9.com
		1801 - Airy was born in Northumberland, England on July 27, 1801.
		1822 - Airy was elected scholar of Trinity.
		1824 - Airy was awarded a fellowship at Trinity College on October 1, 1824.
	www.s9.com /Biography/Airy-George-Biddell-Sir (316 words)

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