See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

PETER ANDREAS See also:

• PETER ANDREAS HANSEN (1795-1874)

HANSEN (1795-1874)  , Danish astronomer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 8th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1795, at See also:

• TONDERN

Tondern, in the duchy of See also:

• SCHLESWIG (Dan. Slesvig)

Schleswig . The son of a See also:

• GOLDSMITH
• GOLDSMITH, LEWIS (c. 1763–1846)
• GOLDSMITH, OLIVER (1728–1774)

goldsmith, he learned the See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade of a watchmaker at Flensburg, and exercised it at See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin and Tondern, 1818-182o . He had, however, See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long been a student of See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science; and Dr Dircks, a physician practising at Tondern, prevailed with his See also:

• FATHER

father to send him in 1820 to See also:

• COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen, where he won the patronage of H . C . See also:

• SCHUMACHER, HEINRICH CHRISTIAN (1780-1850)

Schumacher, and attracted the See also:

• PERSONAL

personal See also:

• NOTICE

notice of See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King See also:

• FREDERICK
• FREDERICK (Mod. Ger. Friedrich; Ital. Federigo; Fr. Frederic and Federic; M.H.G. Friderich; O.H.G. Fridurih, " king or lord of peace," from O.H.G. fridu, A.S. frith, " peace," and rfh " rich," " a ruler," for derivation of which see HENRY)

Frederick VI . The Danish survey was then in progress, and he acted as Schumacher's assistant in See also:

• WORK

work connected with it, chiefly at the new See also:

• OBSERVATORY

observatory of See also:

• ALTONA

Altona, 1821-1825 . Thence he passed on to See also:

• GOTHA

Gotha as director of the Seeberg observatory; nor could he be tempted to relinquish the See also:

• POST

post by successive invitations to replace F . G . W . See also:

• STRUVE, FRIEDRICH GEORG WILHELM (1793-1864)

Struve at Dorpat in 1829, and F . W . See also:

• BESSEL, FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1784-1846)

Bessel at See also:

• KONIGSBERG (Polish Krolewiec)

Konigsberg in 1847 .

The problems of gravitational See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy engaged the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• PART

part of See also:

• HANSEN, PETER ANDREAS (1795-1874)

Hansen's See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention . A See also:

• RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research into the mutual perturbations of See also:

• JUPITER

Jupiter and See also:

• SATURN
• SATURN [SATURNUS]

Saturn secured for him the See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize of the Berlin See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy in 183o, and a memoir on cometary disturbances was crowned by the See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris Academy in 185o . In 1838 he published a revision of the lunar theory, entitled Fundamenta nova investigationis, &c., and the improved Tables of the See also:

• MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
• MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)

Moon based upon it were printed in 1857, at the expense of the See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government, their merit being further recognized by a See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

grant of £1000, and by their immediate See also:

• ADOPTION (Lat. adoptio, for adoptalio, from adoptare, to choose for oneself)

adoption in the Nautical See also:

• ALMANAC

Almanac, and other Ephemerides . A theoretical discussion of the disturbances embodied in them (still familiarly known to lunar experts as the Darlegung) appeared in the Abhandlungen of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in 1862–1864 . Hansen twice visited See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and was twice (in 1842 and 186o) the recipient of the Royal Astronomical Society's See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold See also:

• MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal . He communicated to that society in 1847 an able See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper on a long-See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period lunar inequality (See also:

• MEMOIRS

Memoirs See also:

• ROY, WILLIAM (1726-1790)

Roy . See also:

• ASIR

Asir . Society, xvi . 465), and in 1854 one on the moon's figure, advocating the mistaken See also:

• HYPOTHESIS (from Gr. inrorcOivat, to put under; cf. Lat. suppositio, from sub-ponere)

hypothesis of its deformation by a huge See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation directed towards the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth (lb. See also:

• XXIV

xxiv . 29) . He was awarded the See also:

• COPLEY, JOHN SINGLETON (1737—1815)

Copley medal by the Royal Society in 185o, and his See also:

• SOLAR, SOLLER (Lat. solarium, Fr.• galetas, Ital. solaio)

Solar Tables, compiled with the assistance of See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian Olufsen, appeared in 1854 . Hansen gave in 1854 the first intimation that the accepted distance of the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun was too See also:

• GREAT

great by some millions of See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles (See also:

• MONTH
• MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

Month .

Notices Roy . Asir . See also:

• SOC

Soc. xv . 9), the See also:

• ERROR (Lat. error, from errare, to wander, to err)

error of J . F . See also:

• ENCKE, JOHANN FRANZ (1791–1865)

Encke's result having been rendered evident through his investigation of a lunar inequality . He died on the 28th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1874, at the new observatory in the See also:

• TOWN

town of Gotha, erected under his care in 1857 . See Vierteljahrsschrift astr . Gesellschaft, x . 133; Month . Notices Roy . Asir .

Society, See also:

• XXXV

xxxv . 168; Proc . Roy . Society, See also:

• XXV

xxv. p. v.; R . See also:

• WOLF
• WOLF (Canis lupus)
• WOLF, FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1759-1824)
• WOLF, HUGO (1860-1903)
• WOLF, JOSEPH (1820-1899)

Wolf, Geschichte der Astronomic, p . 526; Wochenschrift See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur Astra' nomie, xvii . 207 (See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early years by E . Heis) ; Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (C . Bruhns) . (A . M .