The calculating eye: Baily, herschel, babbage and the business of astronomy

The British Journal for the History of Science

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 409-441

  Ashworth, Wllliam J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84971736607     PISSN: 00070874     EISSN: 1474001X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007087400032428     Document Type: Article

References (6)

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2. Maria Sophia Bentham, Suggestions for the Better Management of the Civil Concerns of the Navy: Taken from the Papers of the Late Samuel Bentham, London, 1850, 49.
3. Werner Sombart, Der Moderne Kapitalismus, 6th edn, Munich and Leipzig, 1924, ii, 119. Quoted in Studies in the History of Accounting (ed. A. C. Littleton and B. S. Yamey), London, 1956, 3–4.
4. E. Walter Maunder, The Royal Observatory Greenwich : A Glance at its History and Work, London, 1900, 15.
5. George Dodd, Days at the Factories, or The Manufacturing Industry of Great Britain Described, London, 1843, 548. Quoted in Maxine Berg, The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy 1815–1848, Cambridge, 1980, 194.
6. H. H. Turner, ’The decade 1820-1830’, in The History of the Royal Astronomical Society (ed. J. L. E. Dreyer and H. H. Turner), London, 1923, 1—49, on 2. Those also present were: two lawyers, Daniel Moore and Charles Stokes; Olinthus Gregory, professor of mathematics at Woolwich Royal Military Academy; Captain Thomas Colby of the Royal Engineers; Rev. William Pearson; James South, a rich amateur astronomer trained in medicine; and lastly, Peter Slawinski, a professor at Vilna University in Poland and from 1825 Director of the Vilna Observatory.