Papers of George Airy

Miscellaneous papers concerning astronomical matters, including letters from Sir D. Gill and Maxwell Hall. The subjects covered include the Toulouse observations of eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, 1874-1875; observations of Mars, 1877; the Sun's parallax from observations of Mars and Juno; a supposed change in the shape of Saturn; the Gresham Lectures, 1876; Washington equatorial observations communicated to the 'Astronomische Nachrichten'; the astral origin of the Hebrew alphabet; a booklet titled 'The Astronomy of the Future' on polarity in place of gravity; a sidereal system from Maxwell Hall; and correspondence on other subjects relating to astronomy

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