Papers, ca. 1798-1844.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Papers, ca. 1798-1844.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82798902

Correspondence and papers including notebooks, observations and computations relating to star catalogs and the mean density of the earth, general catalog of the principal stars, tract on fluxions, notebooks on Hadley's sextant, papers submitted to the Royal Astronomical Society and abstracts prepared for the Society's "Monthly Notices."

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8289470

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Baily, Francis, 1774-1844

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j97gxf (person)

In 1795 he went to America and had some adventures. Returning in 1798 he became a London stockbroker and published successful works on annuities and assurances. He then turned his attention to astronomy and in 1825 retired from business. He greatly advanced astronomy by his revision of star catalogs, his simplified tables for reduction of aberration, mutation, etc. He reformed the Nautical Almanac. In 1843 he received the Astronomical Society's gold medal for his determination of the weight of t...