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	Sir Robert Ball and Victorian astronomical controversies
		One of the articles Ball wrote to resolve a financial crisis in 1892 [16] was on the observations by Schiaparelli of Martian canals and the possibility of life there, although he was inclined to doubt that Martians were intelligent.
		Ball explains [20] that these satellites have not yet reached 'the general concord', without being terribly clear as to what this is. There is the bigger problem of the composition, structure and age of the Sun, and this is a question Ball largely ignores.
		Robert Ball was described in 1905 as "in practical astronomy a master; he is one of our highest authorities in speculative astronomy; while his reputation as a mathematician is almost as high as that as an astronomer".
	www.nicholaswhyte.info /ball.htm (3743 words)

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		Robert Ball was of Irish extraction, but tracing the Ball lineage takes us back to 16th Century England; to Devon, where his ancestors were landowners, with estates in Mamhead near Dawlish and Morebath just north of Tiverton.
		Ball accounted for this by saying that astronomers are used to dealing with such stupendous periods in their calculations, that a 20-year wait for a telescope was small by comparison.
		Ball was more philosophical; saying that you could not expect from the lanternist who was paid only a few pennies for an evening's work, what you would expect from the lecturer, who if he was someone of Ball's stature commanded high fees and expenses.
	freespace.virgin.net /p.thompson/history/robertboyle.html (8968 words)

	Sir Robert Ball - the Victorian Patrick Moore - Article
		Robert Ball had left University in 1866, and was fortunate enough to obtain a post as tutor to the three younger sons of the third Earl of Rosse at Parsonstown (now Birr).
		However, Ball's stance on the possibility or otherwise of life on Mars and the status of 'canals' as artefacts of intelligent life was a difficult compromise for him, due to a conflict of loyalties.
		There is no doubt that Sir Robert Ball's lectures, presenting an optimistic and positive view of the science of his time to the general public, were a major contribution to the campaign of men of science for recognition in the nineteenth century, and made him the best-known astronomer of Victorian and Edwardian Britain and Ireland.
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		Robert never forgot his 2 years at Birr, and remained in contact with Rosse's sons for the rest of his life.Rosse's most famous son was Charles Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine, which at the turn of the century powered many Royal navy ships and the great liners Mauritania, Lusitania and of course Titanic.
		Ball, it turned out was on the steering committee for the telescope, and so was able to engage in a fruitful conversation with the Emperor.
		William Valentine Ball was charged by his father to transcribe his notes, diaries and correspondence into a biography of sorts, which he did and published in 1915 as Reminiscences and Letters of Robert S Ball.
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	Ball_Robert (print-only)
		Ball accepted on condition that he could use of the 72-inch telescope, which Rosse was happy to agree to, and he took up the position in 1865.
		Ball also seems to have been very successful in educating Rosse's children, which he did with lessons given in the mornings and early afternoons, for one of them Charles Parsons, who Ball tutored from age 11 to age 13, went on to become an engineer whose invention of a multi-stage steam turbine revolutionised marine propulsion.
		Ball applied for the vacant position and was appointed as Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry but disputes with the university meant that he had to wait a year before he was appointed director of the Cambridge Observatory.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Printonly/Ball_Robert.html (1424 words)

	Ball Amount (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		To return the ball can move in any direction, sometimes unpredictably, as the result is the same: The ball is put into play by use of the 1940s through 1970s, and typically became 3 balls to play.
		This is often used for a andquot;skill shotandquot;, in which a player attempts to move the ball can move in any direction, sometimes unpredictably, as the result is the same: The ball is in play, it tends to move downward towards the player, although the ball from disappearing off the bottom of the playfie...
		Ball Amount andnbsp; Ball Screw All Screwed Up!: Turned Puzzles and Boxes Featuring Chased Threads Hand-chasing wooden threads, the centuries-old technique of joining two pieces of a wooden object together, is the focus of this instructional guide to creating wooden puzzles and boxes with screw lids.
	www.gaskillantiques.com /Ball/Amount.xml (3938 words)

	Sir Robert Stawell Ball - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"SIR ROBERT STAWELL BALL (1840-1913), Irish astronomer, was born in Dublin July 1 1840.
		Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was appointed in 1865 assistant to the Earl of Rosse's observatory at Parsonstown, and whilst there he discovered four spiral nebulae.
		This page was last modified 15:06, 23 May 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_Robert_Stawell_Ball (170 words)

	Ball \| Sir \| Robert Stawell \| 1840-1913 \| astronomer and mathematician (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ball wrote a series of successful books of popular astronomy, making him famous for his astronomical work, his real talent lay in mathematics.
		Ball's skill in astronomy was curtailed by his lack of proper training, his first experience of practical astronomy having been Rosse's reflector, when he was already 25.
		Son of Robert Ball, naturalist and president of the Geological Society of Ireland.
	www.nahste.ac.uk /isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0937.html (271 words)

	thePeerage.com - Robert Ogle Barnes and others
		He was the son of Sir Robert Stawell Ball and Frances Elizabeth Steele.
		She married Sir William Valentine Ball, son of Sir Robert Stawell Ball and Frances Elizabeth Steele, on 9 October 1903.
		She married Charles Rowan Hamilton Ball, son of Sir Robert Stawell Ball and Frances Elizabeth Steele, on 30 September 1907.
	www.thepeerage.com /p13001.htm (999 words)

	thePeerage.com - Frances Elizabeth Steele and others
		She married Sir Robert Stawell Ball, son of Robert Ball and Amelia Gresley Hellicar, on 5 August 1868.
		She married Robert Steele Ball, son of Sir Robert Stawell Ball and Frances Elizabeth Steele, on 2 September 1903.
		She married, firstly, Robert Sturge Ball, son of Robert Steele Ball and Olga Sturge, on 13 May 1939.
	www.thepeerage.com /p13000.htm (881 words)

	Ball 2000 Symposium - July 9-11, 2000 - University of Cambridge, Trinity College
		Sir Robert Stawell Ball completed his definitive treatise on the theory of screws nearly a century ago presenting a geometrical view of mechanics that is still unmatched today.
		Yet there are still aspects of the theory that are lesser known and provide fertile areas for modern exposition.
		The symposium commemorates the monumental work of Ball and endeavors to recognize individuals who have carried on the mantle of his work in form and spirit.
	helix.gatech.edu /ball2000/CallForPapers.htm (233 words)

	Clifford Article Endnotes
		Robert Stawell Ball, "The Distance of Stars," read 11 February 1881, Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1879-1882, 9: 514-519, on p.519.
		Robert Stawell Ball, "A Dynamical Parable," Nature, 1 September 1887, 36: 424-429; Originally presented as the presidential address to the Physical Section of the British Association, and published in the Reports of the British Association, (Manchester), 1887, 57; Reprinted in Ball, Treatise: 496-509, on pp.508-509.
		Robert Stawell Ball, A Treatise on the Theory of Screws, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), on p.519.
	members.aol.com /jebco1st/Paraphysics/wkcnotes.htm (4468 words)

	David Lamb's Screw Theory Primer
		Sir Robert Stawell Ball was born on July 1st, 1840, in Dublin, Ireland.
		According to Sir Robert, a screw has two essential elements, which are an em>axis and a pitch.
		So, when the pitch is simply given as a length, like meters, it is assumed that the angle measure was radians, and that we are suppressing the dimensionless units.
	personalwebs.oakland.edu /~latcha/spatial/screw.html (832 words)

	The Work of W.K. Clifford
		However, Clifford's mathematical theory was so abstract and so intimately bound to quaternions that it had minimal affect on the later development of relativity and perhaps disguised Clifford's work from the scrutiny of later scholars and historians.
		Ball and Arthur Buchheim, among others, and primarily involved the mechanics of motion in an elliptical space.
		In long, all night discussions, he converted Ball to the non-Euclidean point of view and traded ideas on the non-Euclidean geometries with Klein.^48^ Clifford had known of Ball's work on screws before this meeting and had adopted the screw system for his own use in the system of biquaternions.
	members.aol.com /jebco1st/Paraphysics/twist1.htm (5016 words)

	A Treatise on the Theory of Screws - Cambridge University Press
		In recent years the theory of screws has emerged as a novel mathematical resource for addressing complex engineering problems, with important applications to robotics, multibody dynamics, mechanical design, computational kinematics, and hybrid automatic control.
		The author, Sir Robert Stawell Ball, was born in Dublin in 1840 and studied at Trinity College, Dublin.
		When the Royal College of Science was founded in Dublin in 1867, Ball became the first professor of applied mathematics and mechanism.
	www.cambridge.org /asia/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521636507 (238 words)

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		Barnard, E.E. Micrometrical Measures of the Ball and Ring System of the Planet Saturn, and Measures of the Diameter of his Satellite Titan, made with the 36-inch Refractor of the Lick Observatory in the year 1895.
		Enprynted at London : In [the] fletestrete at the sygne of the rose garland by Robert Coplande, 1547.
		At London : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, and are to be sold by Robert Allott, at the signe of the Grey-hound in Paules Church-yard, 1626 (2nd ed.) (Surveying; carpenters rule, cross-staff.) Digges, Leonard and Thomas.
	www.europa.com /~telscope/jrnlbibl.txt (13382 words)

	Introduction to SOVAS
		Or, if you wish an alternative approach to screws, which ends up with the same result as Sir Robert, but by a different path of reasoning, see here.
		A change in frame of reference can be easily accomplished by multiplying the Plucker coordinate form of a screw on the left by the appropriate D-matrix to get the equivalent Plucker coordinate form for the screw in the new frame.
		Here is where we combine the Spatial Algebra (a six-dimensional subalgebra of an eight-dimensional Clifford algebra, as described in these pages) and Screw Theory, as described by Sir Robert Stawell Ball or in an alternative development.
	personalwebs.oakland.edu /~latcha/spatial/sovas3.html (2094 words)

	Note on `Hamilton' by Sir Robert Stawell Ball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Note on `Hamilton' by Sir Robert Stawell Ball: Hamilton's Scottish Grandmother
		303-334), Sir Robert S. Ball wrote that `his maternal grandmother was of Scottish birth'.
		I have accordingly changed `maternal' to `paternal' in this transcription of R. Ball's account of the life of William Rowan Hamilton.
	www.maths.tcd.ie /pub/HistMath/People/Hamilton/GreatAst/RSBNote.html (136 words)

	Photographs of Collections
		Various Helmholtz resonators sit on the floor in front of the table and in the middle of the table is an overhead projector.
		Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913) published Experimental Mechanics, a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Science for Ireland in 1871.
		To illustrate the ideas, he used a modular system of large-scale parts that could be fitted together in a number of ways.
	physics.kenyon.edu /EarlyApparatus/Miscellaneous/Photographs_of_Collections/Photographs_of_Collections.html (1486 words)

	Amazon.com: A Treatise on the Theory of Screws (Cambridge Mathematical Library): Books: Robert Stawell Ball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The author was born in Dublin in 1840 and studied at Trinity College, Dublin.
		Robert Ball is sometimes better remembered for his works in astronomy, however, his real interest was mathematics.
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	Amazon.com: Stawell: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Robert Stawell Ball EXPERIMENTAL MECHANICS A COURSE OF LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE...
		Stawell) by fm ed Plato / Stawell (Hardcover - 1907)
		Sir William Stawell: Second Chief Justice of Victoria 1857-1886 (Lives of the Australian Chief Justices) by J. Bennett (Hardcover - Jan 2005)
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	Science and Society Picture Library - Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sir Robert Stawell Ball, mathematician and astronomer, c 1890.
		An original box of 'Ocobo' gutta percha golf balls, early 20th century.
		A pioneering ball and stick atomic model set, 1860s.
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	Robert Stawell Ball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sir Robert Stawell Ball (July 1, 1840-November 25, 1913) was an Irish astronomer to Lord Rosse in 1865 and Irish Astronomer-Royal in 1874.
		This article incorporates text from The Modern World Encyclopædia: Illustrated (1935); out of UK copyright as of 2005.
		Works by Robert Stawell Ball at Project Gutenberg
	www.tocatch.info /en/Robert_Stawell_Ball.htm (124 words)

	What's New?
		New "Simulate" page suggests simple activities to simulate a transit of Venus, such as using a small ball, a wire, and a picture on your computer monitor.
		Irish astronomer Sir Robwert Stawell Ball's observation of the 1882 transit of Venus at Dunsink; from Steven M. van Roode.
		Robert J. Havlik, Emeritus Librarian, relates the outcome of the efforts by professors and students.
	www.transitofvenus.org /whatsnew.htm (8631 words)

	Robert A Ball Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
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	[Sir] Robert Ball
		The Story of the Sun (1893); The Story of the Heavens (1886).
		Ball, Reminiscences and Letters of Sir Robert Ball (1915);
		Morris Collection of Ulster Univ. Library holds Robert Stawell Ball, The Story of the Sun (1893).
	www.pgil-eirdata.org /html/pgil_datasets/authors/b/Ball,R/life.htm (103 words)

	Stawell Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		A rare combination of scientific study and literary classic.
		Rodolph Stawell.", Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, Edward Julius Detmold
		The adventures of Odysseus, retold in English by F.S. Marvin, R.J.G. Mayor & F.M. Stawell.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Stawell (343 words)

	Ball \| Sir \| Robert Stawell \| 1840-1913 \| astronomer and mathematician
		Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1830-1889)
		Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1885)
		Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1886)
	www.nahste.ac.uk /pers/b/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0937 (77 words)

	Excerpt from Star-Land by Sir Robert S Ball
		Excerpt from Star-Land by Sir Robert S Ball
		At that spot there is intense heat, by which a match can be lighted, gunpowder exploded, or the paper itself kindled.
		from Star-Land, being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens, by Sir Robert Stawell Ball, Royal Astronomer of Ireland, Cassell and Co,1890
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