See also:

• EDWARD

EDWARD See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

JAMES See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• EDWARD JAMES STONE (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

STONE (1831-1897)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British astronomer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• LONDON

London on the 28th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1831 . Educated at the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City of London School, he obtained a studentship at 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's See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, London, and in 1856 a scholarship at See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen's College, See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, graduated as fifth wrangler in 1859, and was immediately elected See also:

• FELLOW

fellow of his college . The following See also:

• YEAR

year he succeeded the Rev . R . See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

Main as See also:

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

chief assistant at the Royal See also:

• OBSERVATORY

Observatory, See also:

• GREENWICH

Greenwich, and at once undertook the fundamental task of improving astronomical constants . The most important of these, 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's mean See also:

• PARALLAX (Gr. aapa?X6, alternately)

parallax, was at that See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time subject to considerable uncertainty . From a discussion of the observations of See also:

• MARS
• MARS (MAYORS, MARMAR, MARSPITER GA MASPITER)
• MARS, MLLE [ANNE FRANCOISE HYPPOLYTE BOUTET] (1779-1847)

Mars made in 186o and 1862 at Greenwich and See also:

• WILLIAMS
• WILLIAMS, JOHN (1582-1650)
• WILLIAMS, JOHN (1796-1839)
• WILLIAMS, ROGER (c. 1604–1684)
• WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (1817-1870)
• WILLIAMS, SIR WILLIAM FENWICK

Williams-See also:

• TOWN

town (near See also:

• MELBOURNE
• MELBOURNE, WILLIAM LAMB, 2ND VISCOUNT (1779-1848)

Melbourne), See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

Stone deduced for it a value of 8.932" (Mon . Not . R.A.S. See also:

• XXIII

xxiii . 183), and in a further investigation in which he included the observations made in 1862, at the Cape of See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

Good See also:

• HOPE, ANTHONY
• HOPE, THOMAS (c. 1770-1831)

Hope, he obtained 8.945" (Mein. of R.A.S., vol. xxxiii.) . Confirmatory results were afforded by his discussion of the observations of the transit of See also:

• VENUS

Venus in 1769 which yielded the figure 8.91" (Mon . Not .

R.A.S. See also:

• XXVIII

xxviii . 255) . In 1865 he contributed a memoir to the Royal Astronomical Society on the See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant of lunar parallax . He also deter-See also:

• MINED

mined the See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass 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, and from a discussion of the Greenwich transit circle observations between 1851 and 1865 he found for the constant of See also:

• NUTATION (from Lat. nutare, to nod)

nutation the value 9.134" . These services were recognized by the See also:

• AWARD (from O. Fr. ewart, or esguart, cf. " reward ")

award 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 in 1869, and on the resignation of See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas Maclear in 1870 he was appointed Her See also:

• MAJESTY (Fr. majeste; Lat. majestas, grandeur, greatness, from the base mag-, as in magnus, great, major, greater, &c.)

Majesty's astronomer at the Cape . His first task on taking up this See also:

• POST

post was the reduction and publication of a large mass of observations See also:

• LEFT

left by his predecessor, from a selected portion of which (those made 1856-186o) he compiled a See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue of 1159 stars . His See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• WORK

work was, however, a catalogue of 12,441 stars to the 7th magnitude between the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• POLE (FAMILY)
• POLE, REGINALD (1500-1558)
• POLE, RICHARD DE LA (d. 1525)
• POLE, WILLIAM (1814—1900)

Pole and 25° S. See also:

• DECLINATION (from Lat. declinare, to decline)

declination, which was practically finished by the end of 1878 and published in 1881 . Shortly after the See also:

• DEATH

death of Main on the 9th of May 1878, Stone was appointed to succeed him as See also:

• RADCLIFFE
• RADCLIFFE, ANN (1764-1823)
• RADCLIFFE, JOHN (1650-1714)
• RADCLIFFE, SIR GEORGE (1593-1657)

Radcliffe Observer at See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford, and he left the Cape on the 27th of May 1879 . At Oxford he extended the Cape observations of stars to the 7th magnitude from 25° S. declination to the See also:

• EQUATOR (Late Lat. aequator, from aequare, to make equal)

equator, and collected the results in the Radcliffe Catalogue for 189o, which contains the places of 6424 stars . Stone observed the transit of Venus of 1874 at the Cape, and organized the 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 expeditions for the corresponding event in 1882 . He was elected See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the Royal Astronomical Society (1882-1884), and he was the first to recognize the importance of the old observations accumulated at the Radcliffe Observatory by Hornsby, See also:

• ROBERTSON, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1816-1853)
• ROBERTSON, GEORGE CROOM (1842-1892)
• ROBERTSON, JOSEPH (1810-1866)
• ROBERTSON, THOMAS WILLIAM (1829-1871)
• ROBERTSON, WILLIAM BRUCE (182o-1886)

Robertson and See also:

• RIGAUD, HYACINTHE (1659-1743)

Rigaud (Mon . Not .

R.A.S., vol. lv.) . He successfully observed the See also:

• TOTAL

total See also:

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

solar See also:

• ECLIPSE (Gr. €uheo,tis, falling out of place, failing)

eclipse of the 8th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1896 at Novaya Zemlya, and purposed a voyage to See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India for the eclipse of 1898, but died suddenly at the Radcliffe Observatory on the 9th of May 1897 . The number of his astronomical publications exceeds 150, but his reputation depends mainly on his earlier work at Greenwich and his two See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• STAR

star catalogues— the Cape Catalogue for 188o and the Radcliffe Catalogue for 1890 . See Proc . See also:

• ROY, WILLIAM (1726-1790)

Roy . Society, Ixii . 10; 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 . Not . Roy . See also:

• AST, GEORG ANTON FRIEDRICH (1778-1841)

Ast . See also:

• SOC

Soc. lviii . 143; The Times, loth of May 1897; Observatory, xx.234; Astr .

Nach . No . 3426; Roy . Soc . See also:

• CAT
• CAT, CIVET
• CAT, HOUSE

Cat . Scient . Papers . (A M .