Kenneth Essex Edgeworth - Victorian polymath and founder of the Kuiper belt?

Vistas in Astronomy

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 343-354

  McFarland, John ^a  

^a ARMAGH OBSERVATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000433783     PISSN: 00836656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0083-6656(96)00014-1     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Bailey M. E., Clube S. V. M. and Napier W. M. (1990) The Origin of Comets, p. 202. Pergamon Press.
2. Brück M. T. (1996) The Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt? The Irish Astron. J. 23, 3.
3. Butler H. J. and Butler H. E. (1927) The Black Book of Edgeworthstown and other Edgeworth memories 1585-1817. Faber and Gwyer, London.
4. Duncan M., Quinn T. and Tremaine S. (1988) The Origin of Short-Period Comets. Astrophys. J. Lett. 328, L69-L73.
5. Edgeworth K. E. (1926a) J. Institution of Electrical Engineers 64, 273. Edgeworth's comment in the discussion of Thomas' The Performance of Amplifiers on the preceding pages.
6. Edgeworth K. E. (1926b) Frequency Variations in Thermionic Generators. J. Inst. Electr. Engrs 64, 349-366.
7. Edgeworth K. E. (n.d.) The Industrial Crisis. Cherbury, Booterstown, Co. Dublin.
8. Edgeworth K. E. (1932) The Trade Balance. Cherbury, Booterstown, Co. Dublin.
9. Edgeworth K. E. (1933) The Price Level. Cherbury, Booterstown, Co. Dublin.
10. Edgeworth K. E. (1939) The Fission of Rotating Bodies. Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 99, 272-275,
11. being a comment on two papers by R.A. Lyttleton which appeared in Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 98, 8, 1938.
12. For Lyttleton's reply to Edgeworth's comment see Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 99, 567-568, 1939.
13. Edgeworth K. E. (1943) The Evolution of our Planetary System. J. Br. Astron. Assoc. 53, 181-188.
14. Edgeworth K. E. (1944a) Nature 153, 140-141.
15. Edgeworth's comment on H. Alfven's astronomical evolution theory which appeared in Nature 152, 721.
16. Edgeworth K. E. (1944b) Planetary Evolution (Correspondence). J. Br. Astron. Assoc. 54, 17.
17. Edgeworth's reply to C. F. Milsom's comments on his planetary theory in J. Br. Astron. Assoc. 53, 251.
18. Edgeworth K. E. (1944c) Unemployment Can Be Cured. Cherbury, Booterstown, Co. Dublin.
19. Edgeworth K. E. (1945) Nature 155, 700.
20. Edgeworth's comment on A. J. Shneiderov's note on Red Shift in the Anagalactic Nebulae, in Nature 155, 332-333.
21. Edgeworth K. E. (1946a) Some aspects of stellar evolution - I. Direct condensation. Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 106, 470-475.
22. Edgeworth K. E. (1946b) Some aspects of stellar evolution - II. Successive condensations. Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 106, 476-483.
23. Edgeworth K. E. (1946c) Some aspects of stellar evolution - III. The formation of filaments. Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 106, 484-490.
24. Edgeworth K. E. (1946d) Red dwarf stars (Correspondence). Nature 157, 481.
25. Edgeworth K. E. (1947a) On the formation of binary systems (Correspondence). The Observatory 67, 30. Followed by F. Hoyle's comments, pp. 31-32.
26. Edgeworth K. E. (1947b) On the formation of binary systems (Correspondence). Edgeworth's reply to F. Hoyle's comments. The Observatory 67, 58-59.
27. Edgeworth K. E. (1948a) Early chapters in the history of stellar evolution. Sky and Telescope 7, 250-251, 272-273, 277.
28. Edgeworth K. E. (1948b) Some aspects of stellar evolution - IV. The mean random velocity of the stars. Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 108, 417-419.
29. Edgeworth K. E. (1949) The origin and evolution of the solar system. Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 109, 600-609.
30. Edgeworth K. E. (1958) Diffusion in the stars (Correspondence). The Observatory 78, 212-213.
31. Edgeworth K. E. (1961) The Earth, the Planets and the Stars: Their Birth and Evolution. The Macmillan Company, New York.
32. Edgeworth K. E. (1962) On the origin of the solar nebula (Correspondence). The Observatory 82, 219.
33. Edgeworth K. E. (1965) Jack of All Trades - The Story of my Life. Allen Figgis, Dublin.
34. Edgeworth K. E. and Cobbold G. W. N. (1925) The measurement of frequency and allied quantities in wireless telegraphy. J. Inst. Electric. Engrs 63, 919-922.
35. Fernández J. A. (1980) On the existence of a comet belt beyond Neptune. Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 192, 481-491.
36. Jewitt D. and Luu J. (1993) Discovery of the candidate Kuiper belt object 1992QB1. Nature 362, 730-732.
37. Jewitt D. C. and Luu J. X. (1995) The solar system beyond Neptune. Astron. J. 109, 1867-1876.
38. Kuiper G. P. (1951) Origin of the solar system. In Astrophysics - A Topical Symposium (Edited by Hynek J. A.), pp. 357-424. McGraw-Hill, New York.
39. Luu J. X. and Jewitt D. C. (1996) The Kuiper Belt. Scientific American 274, 32-38.
40. Marsden B. G. (1996) Minor Planet Electronic Circular, 1996-J02.
41. McNally D. and Hoskin M. (1988) William E. Wilson's Observatory at Daramona House. J. Hist. Astron. 19, 146-153.
42. Minchin G. M. (1895) The electrical measurement of starlight. Observations made at the Observatory of Daramona House, Co. Westmeath, in April, 1895. Preliminary Report. Proc. R. Soc. 58, 142.
43. Minchin G. M. (1896) The electrical measurement of starlight. Observations made at the Observatory of Daramona House, Co. Westmeath, in January, 1896. Proc. R. Soc., 59, 231.
44. Obituary (1973) Lt.-Col. K.E. Edgeworth DSO, MC. J. R. Signals Inst. XI, No.1, p. 41.
45. Quinn T., Tremaine S. and Duncan M. (1990) Planetary perturbations and the origin of short-period comets. Astrophys. J. 355, 667-679.
46. Reynolds O. (1903) The Sub-Mechanics of the Universe. Published for the Royal Society of London, Cambridge University Press.
47. Warner B. (1977) W. E. Wilson and the Daramona Observatory. Sky and Telescope 53, 108-110.
48. Weissman P. R. (1995) The Kuiper Belt. Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 33, 327-357.
49. Weissman P. R. and Levison H. F. (1996) The population of the trans-Neptunian Region. In Pluto-Charon. University of Arizona Press (in press).
50. Wilson W. E. (1885) Notes on the transit of Venus, as observed at Streete, Co. Westmeath. Sci. Proc. R. Dublin Soc., New Ser. IV, pp. 51-52.
51. Wilson W. E. (1894) The thermal radiation from sun spots. Preliminary Notes of Observations made at Daramona, Streete, Co. Westmeath. Proc. R. Soc. 55, 246-249.
52. Wilson W. E. (1895) The thermal radiation from sun spots. Observations made at Daramona, Streete, Co. Westmeath. Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 55, 457-461.
53. Wilson W. E. (1900) Astronomical and Physical Researches made at Mr Wilson's Observatory, Daramona, Westmeath, being a privately published collection of Wilson's and his collaborators' papers.
54. Wilson W. E. and Gray P. L. (1894) Experimental investigations on the effective temperature of the Sun, made at Streete, Co. Westmeath. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 185A, 361-396.
55. Wilson W. E. and Rambaut A. A. (1892) The absorption of heat in the solar atmosphere. Proc. R. Irish Academy 3rd Ser., II, 18, 299-334.