The Airy Transit Circle

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• 1. Airy's advances
• 2. New transit instrument
• 3. Chronograph
• 4. Innovations
• 5. Airy the man
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Greenwich Observatory, vol 1, by Eric G. Forbes (London, 1975)

Greenwich Observatory, vol 2, by A. J. Meadows (London, 1975)

Greenwich Observatory, vol 3, by Derek Howse (London, 1975)

The History of the Airy Transit Circle by Gilbert Satterthwaite (MSc Dissertation at University of London, 1995)

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich by E Walter Maunder (London, 1900)

Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy edited by Wilfrid Airy (Cambridge University Press, 1896)

The Victorian Amateur Astronomer, Wiley-Paxis by Allan Chapman (Chichester, 1998)

The Midnight Sky by Edwin Dunkin

'John and Edward Troughton, Mathematical Instrument Makers,' Note & Records of the Royal Society, vol 27, no 2, by AW Skempton & Joyce Brown (Feb 1973)

Eyes Right: The Story of Dollond & Aitchison, 1750-1985 by Hugh Barty-King (Quiller Press, London, 1986)

Transit Circle: The Story of William Simms, 1793-1860 by Eleanor Mennim (William Sessions Ltd, York, 1992)

Ransomes of Ipswich by DR Grace & DC Phillips (University of Reading, 1975)

Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers, 1550-1851 by Gloria Clifton (National Maritime Museum, London, 1995)

About the author

Emily Winterburnn is Curator of Astronomy at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and is also working on her PhD looking at the life of another 19th century scientist, John Frederick William Herschel.

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Published: 2002-07-01