[DOWNLOAD] "Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton" by Robert Stawell Ball # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton
- Author : Robert Stawell Ball
- Release Date : January 18, 2018
- Genre: Physics,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1190 KB
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Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865) was an Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who made important contributions to mechanics, optics, and algebra. As a teenager, he mastered parts of Newton's Principia and studied Laplace's celestial mechanics treatise. When barely 22, Hamilton became a professor of astronomy at University of Dublin, however he was more interested in theoretical rather than practical astronomy.