Great Astronomers

Автор: SirRobert S. Ball
Издательство: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons
Страниц: 396
Год: 1907
Размер: 9,57 МБ

THERE is bat little alteration in this edition, for so far as regards the older astronomers at all events there has been nothing to add or to correct. It may, however, be mentioned here that a commemorative tablet has recently been placed on the house, in New King Street, Bath, in which William Herschel resided. Nor could it be possible to allow the sketch of the late Earl of Eosse to be reprinted without adding the fact that his youngest son, Hon. C. A. Parsons, is, as all the world knows, the famous engineer who invented the steam turbine.