Astronomer-Royal

Pyramidology, why let them get “Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid,” a work by Professor Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer-Royal of Scotland.

The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 Joseph Wild

It was Adolphe Quetelet, Astronomer-Royal of Belgium, who in the seventies of the last century attempted to prove that "_the average man is to a nation what the centre of gravity is to a body_."

Notes on Islam Ahmed Hussain

I gravely doubt whether the Astronomer-Royal would write the best essay on the relations between astronomy and astrology.

Eugenics and Other Evils 1905

Astronomer-Royal knows that almost every post brings an absurd letter from some ambitious correspondent or other, some of them having just discovered perpetual motion, or squared the circle, or proved the earth flat, or discovered the constitution of the moon, or of ether, or of electricity; and out of this mass of rubbish it requires great skill and patience to detect such gems of value as there may be.

Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

Fortunately, Halley succeeded Flamsteed as Astronomer-Royal [see list at end of notes above], and then Newton would have no difficulty in gaining such information as the national Observatory could give.

Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

So the Astronomer-Royal thought on reading Leverrier's paper.

Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

Astronomer-Royal, at Greenwich, Professor Airy, saying that the perturbations of Uranus would be explained by assuming the existence of an outer planet, which he reckoned was now situated in a specified latitude and longitude.

Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

Astronomer-Royal, compared it with the National one at Greenwich, and found Herschel's home-made instrument far the better of the two.

Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

We know now that had the Astronomer-Royal put sufficient faith in this result to point his big telescope to the spot indicated and commence sweeping for a planet, he would have detected it within 1-3/4° of the place assigned to it by Mr. Adams.

Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

Though Halley afterwards became Astronomer-Royal, lived to the ripe old age of eighty-six, and made many striking observations, yet he would be the first to admit that nothing he ever did was at all comparable in importance with his discovery of the _Principia_; and he always used to regard his part in it with peculiar pride and pleasure.

Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895