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William Parsons 3rd Earl of Rosse Astronomy and the Castle in Nineteenth Century Ireland 1st Edition by R Charles Mollan ISBN 1526101920 9781526101921

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Author(s): R. Charles Mollan
ISBN(s): 9781526101921, 1526101920
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 9.28 MB
Year: 2014
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1526101920
ISBN 13: 9781526101921
Author: R Charles Mollan

This is a revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle, County Offaly, in nineteenth-century Ireland, before, during and after the devastating famine of the 1840s. He was a remarkable engineer, who built enormous telescopes in the cloudy middle of Ireland. The book gives details, in an attractive non-technical style which requires no previous scientific knowledge, of his engineering initiatives and the astronomical results, but also reveals much more about the man and his contributions – locally in the town and county around Birr, in political and other functions in an Ireland administered by the Protestant Ascendancy, in the development and activities of the Royal Society, of which he was President from 1848–54, and the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The Countess of Rosse, who receives full acknowledgement in the book, was a woman of many talents, among which was her pioneering work in photography, and the book includes reproductions of her artistic exposures, and many other attractive illustrations.

William Parsons 3rd Earl of Rosse Astronomy and the Castle in Nineteenth Century Ireland 1st Table of contents:

1 History of the Parsons family and Birr Castle
2 Origin of the 3rd Earl’s interest in astronomy
3 Mary, Countess of Rosse (1813–85)
4 William Parsons’ influence on the town and community of Birr
5 Negotiating ‘a difficult sectarian terrain’: the public life and political opinions of the 3rd Earl of Rosse
6 A consummate engineer
7 Birr Castle observations of non-stellar objects and the development of nebular theories
8 William Parsons and the Irish nineteenth-century tradition of independent astronomical research
9 ‘A presiding influence’: the relations of the 3rd Earl of Rosse with scientific institutions in Britain and Ireland
10 The 3rd Earl of Rosse: an assessment

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