Great Astronomers
Author | : Robert Stawell Ball |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2019-12-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 1671037332 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781671037335 |
Rating | : 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Download or read book Great Astronomers written by Robert Stawell Ball and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) was an Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who made important contributions to mechanics, optics, and algebra. As a teenager, he mastered parts of Newton's Principia and studied Laplace's celestial mechanics treatise.