Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy (Classic Reprint)

Airy was essentially that of a hard-working, business man, and differed from that of other hard-working people only in the quality and variety of his work. It was not an exciting life, but it was full of interest, and his work brought him into close relations with many scientific men, and with many men high in theS tate. His real business life commenced after he became Astronomer Royal, and from that time forward, during the 46 years that he remained in office, he was so entirely wrapped up in the duties of his post that the history of theO bservatory is the history of his life. For writing his business life there is abundant material, for he preserved all his correspondence, and the chief sources of information are as follows :(1) His A utobiography. (2) His Annual Reports to theB oard of Visitors. (3) His printed Papers entitled Papers by G. B. A iry. (4) His miscellaneous private correspondence. (5) His letters to his wife. (6) His business correspondence. (i) His A utobiography, after the time that he became Astronomer Royal, is, as might be expected, mainly a record of the scientific work carried on at the Greenwich Observatory :but by no means exclusively so. A bout the time when he took charge of theO bservatory there was an immense development of astronomical enterprise: observatories were springing up in all directions, and the Astronomer A B. 239026 ..
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