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	WILLIAM PARSONS, 3RD EARL OF ROSSE - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM PARSONS, 3RD EARL OF ROSSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lord Rosse died at Monkstown on the 3ist of October 1867.
		The eldest, Lawrence Parsons, 4th earl of Rosse, and Baron Oxmantown, born on the 17th of November 1840, succeeded to the title on his fathers death, and made many investigations on the heavenly bodies, particularly on the radiation of the moon and related physical questions; the youngest, the Hon.
		Charles Algernon Parsons, born on the 13th of June 1854, is famous for his commercial development of the steam turbine.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RO/ROSSE_WILLIAM_PARSONS_3RD_EARL_OF.htm (756 words)

	William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (June 17, 1800 – October 31, 1867) was an Irish astronomer.
		Rosse and his technicians claimed to resolve the Orion nebula into its individual stars, which would have both political and cosmological implications, as at the time there was considerable debate over whether or not the universe was "evolved" (in a pre-Darwinian sense), a concept Rosse disagreed with strongly.
		The eldest, Lawrence Parsons, succeeded him as Earl of Rosse and continued some astronomical observations; another son, Charles Algernon Parsons, is known for his commercial development of the steam turbine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Parsons,_3rd_Earl_of_Rosse (679 words)

	EARL OF ROSSE - LoveToKnow Article on EARL OF ROSSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		ROSSE, EARL OF, a title borne by the Irish family of parsons.
		James Parsons, a native of Leicestershire, who flourished in the 16th century, was the father of Sir William Parsons (c.
		Lawrence Parsons, 2nd earl of Rosse (1758-1841), the eldest son of Sir William Parsons, hart.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RO/ROSSE_EARL_OF.htm (493 words)

	William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (June 17, 1800 – October 31, 1867) was an Irish (A physicist who studies astronomy) astronomer.
		Lord Rosse carried out pioneering astronomical studies and discovered the spiral nature of some (An immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space) nebulas, today known to be spiral (Click link for more info and facts about galaxies) galaxies.
		A main component of Rosse's nebular research was attempting to resolve the ((cosmology) the theory that the solar system evolved from a hot gaseous nebula) nebular hypothesis, which posited that planets and stars were formed by (A solemn and dignified feeling) gravity acting on gaseous nebulae.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/W/Wi/William_Parsons,_3rd_Earl_of_Rosse.htm (602 words)

	Rosse, William Parsons, 3rd earl of -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Portland, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of, Marquess Of Titchfield, Earl Of Portland, Viscount Woodstock, Baron Of Cirencester
		Thomas Sackville, the 1st earl of Dorset, and an English statesman, poet, and dramatist, is remembered largely for his share in two achievements of significance in the development of Elizabethan poetry and drama: the collection Mirror for Magistrates (1563), probably the most important work between the periods of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser, and the...
		Parsons was born in Colorado Springs, Colo. He established the social-systems theory of sociology and was noted for his ideas on social stratification, believing that individual status reflects social values.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9064148 (806 words)

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		William Parsons (musician) (1786 - 1817) was Master of the King's Music.
		William Parsons (1701-1757), Surveyor General and Founder of Easton, Pennsylvania.
		William Parsons (scientist) is a physicist at the University of Maryland.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /William_Parsons (170 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 1279
		Laurence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse was the son of William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse and Mary Field.
		William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse was the son of Laurence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse and Alice Lloyd.
		She married William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, son of Laurence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse and Alice Lloyd, on 14 April 1836.
	www.thepeerage.com /p1279.htm (650 words)

	Earl of Rosse explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800-1867), elected a Representative Peer in 1845
		William Edward Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse (1873-1918), elected a Representative Peer in 1911
		The home of the Earl of Rosse is Birr Castle in the town of Birr, County Offaly.
	www.wordspider.net /ea/earl-of-rosse.html (318 words)

	Holidayhound - Offaly, Birr Observatory; William Parsons, astronomy, Birr Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Offaly, astronomy, Birr, observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, Boyle, Lawrence Parsons, nebulae, warships, Birr Castle, Demesne.
		As noted in the Introduction to Offaly, the Rosse women were no slouches when it came to scientific expansion either, and their descendents, the present day Earls, still live in Birr Castle.
		Offaly has produced more scientific minds than just the Rosses; George Johnston Stoney was the first man to propose the existence of electrons, and John Joly developed radiotherapy, now a vital part of the treatment of cancer.
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	William Paca - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation William Paca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		William Paca (October 30, 1740–October 23, 1799), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland.
		He was born in Abingdon, Maryland from a family of ancient Italian ancestry, and home-schooled.
		William Paca Middle School in Mastic Beach, New York and P.S. 155 William Paca School in New York City are also named after him.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/William-Paca.html (277 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 1513
		Algernon George Parsons was the son of Sir Charles Algernon Parsons and Katherine Bethell.
		Rachel Mary Parsons was the daughter of Sir Charles Algernon Parsons and Katherine Bethell.
		Richard Clere Parsons, son of William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse and Mary Field, on 21 November 1878.
	www.thepeerage.com /p1513.htm (448 words)

	Parsons, William, 3rd Earl of Rosse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Parsons was born in York and studied at Oxford.
		As the eldest son of a titled landowner, he was elected to Parliament while still an undergraduate to represent King's County, a seat he then held for 13 years.
		During and after the potato famine of 1846, Parsons worked to alleviate the living conditions of his tenants.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/P/ParsonsW/1.html (141 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 1512
		Reverend Randal Parsons was the son of William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse and Mary Field.
		Richard Clere Parsons was the son of William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse and Mary Field.
		Sir Charles Algernon Parsons was the son of William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse and Mary Field.
	www.thepeerage.com /p1512.htm (627 words)

	Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse (November 17, 1840 – August 30, 1908) was the son and successor of the astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse who built the "Leviathan of Parsonstown" telescope, largest of its day.
		His name is often given as Laurence Parsons.
		Although overshadowed by his father (when astronomers speak of "Lord Rosse", it is almost always the father that they refer to), he nonetheless pursued some astronomical observations of his own, particularly of the Moon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lawrence_Parsons,_4th_Earl_of_Rosse (117 words)

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		Earl, who was internationally recognised as one of the most brilliant Engineers of the 19th.
		Earl of Rosse, especially to cast the enormous 72 inch Mirror, for the giant Telescope, has been restored, courtesy of the excellent work of FÁS and Bord na Móna.
		It is well known that the Earls of Rosse were exceedingly generous and fair, to the Local people, during this terrible time, in Ireland.
	www.entemp.ie /press/1999/221299a.htm (1823 words)

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		The Rosse telescope, an instrument with a six foot speculum (mirror), was the largest telescope in the world for 75 years, only being superseded by the 100-inch reflector at Mount Wilson, California in 1917.
		It was built by William Parsons, the 3rd Earl of Rosse, at Birr Castle in Ireland between 1842 and 1844.
		In the tradition of William Herschel, Rosse used reflecting telescopes because their light-gathering power was superior to that of lens telescopes.
	www.scienceandsocietyprints.com /barcode10410259.aspx (156 words)

	Blather Archives: Ireland's Hell-Fire Clubs Part II. Irish Rakes, like Buck Whaley
		Last week, we found that Andrew Behan thought that Richard Parsons (1st Earl of Rosse and founder of the Irish Hell-Fire Club) and Colonel Jack St. Ledger were in the same person, and Blather sought to drag their personas apart.
		Parsons was a 'respected chemical engineer and aerospace pioneer' and 'was instrumental in the founding of both the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and of Aerojet General'.
		Certainly invention ran in the Earl's family, with William Parsons, the 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800-1867) constructing the famous telescope at Birr Castle, Co. Offaly in 1839 (largest telescope in the world for 70 years), and his son, Charles Parsons inventing the steam turbine.
	www.blather.net /archives2/issue2no26.html (1211 words)

	1800 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		June 17 - William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Irish astronomer (died 1867)
		William Nicholson, officer in the United States Navy (died 1872)
		William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (died 1879)
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	Charles Algernon Parsons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sir Charles Algernon Parsons (June 13, 1854 – February 11, 1931) was a BritainBritish engineer, best known for his invention of the steam turbine/.
		He was a younger son of the famous astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of RosseLord Rosse, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and St. John's College, Cambridge.
		He was knighted in 1911, and made a member of the Order of Merit in 1927.
	www.infothis.com /find/Charles_Algernon_Parsons (109 words)

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		William Cranch Bond (September 9, 1789 - January 29, 1859) was an American astronomer, the first director of Harvard College Observatory.
		Biebrich is a borough of the city Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, located in the Rhine-Main-Area near Frankfurt.
		William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, usually known as Lord Rosse, was a 19th-century Irish astronomer.
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	Salisbury, William Longsword, 3rd earl of -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		This substantial ruin was originally built in 1720 as a hunting lodge by William Conolly, the speaker of the Irish parliament.
		Though the Irish climate is completely unsuitable for serious astronomy Rosse discovered the spiral nature of other galaxies, the Crab Nebula and the greater nebula in Orion with this miraculous instrument.
		It's unknown whether his sons: Laurence, the 4th Earl (an astronomer) and Charles (a British inventor who died in 1931) were involved in the cult, which has today spread throughout the English speaking world.
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		William Parsons, the Third Earl of Rosse (1800-1867)
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		William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (June 17, 1800 – October 31, 1867) was an Irish astronomer.
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		Not without reason was he described by a contemporary as “a flsmith and astronomer, equally at home in the forge or among the stars.” Not content with all this, he drew the most beautiful pictures of the objects he observed.
		Not surprisingly, Rosse’s paper, given in St Anthony’s Hall (which now houses the Borthwick Institute of the University of York), was the highlight of the meeting.
		Like Rosse, he was born two hundred years ago, in his case on Christmas Day, a birthday he shared with John Michell.
	www.physics.leeds.ac.uk /physics/newsletters/october2000/october2000.html (4130 words)

	Galaxy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In 1845, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of RosseLord Rosse constructed a new telescope and was able to distinguish between elliptical and spiral nebulae.
		The first attempt to describe the shape of the Milky Way and the position of the Sun within it was carried out by William Herschel in 1785 by carefully counting the number of stars in different regions of the sky.
		Using a refined approach, Jacobus KapteynKapteyn in 1920 arrived at the picture of a small (diameter ~15 kiloparsecs) ellipsoid galaxy with the Sun close to the center.
	www.infothis.com /find/Galaxy (1436 words)

	AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS: EARL OF ROSSE III - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 05/12/1864
		We will not require it till Autumn when the Nebula will be again within reach...." Astronomer William Parsons (1800-1867) succeeded to the peerage in 1841 and was elected a representative peer for Ireland in 1845.
		He studied methods of improving construction of the speculum of reflecting telescopes and discovered a way to obviate the cracking of the surface on cooling.
		Lord Rosse resolved certain spiral nebulae into groups of stars and discovered binary and triple stars.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/5_2004/scientists_inventors/85452-EARL-OF-ROSSE-III.htm (230 words)

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