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See also:BRUNNOW, See also:FRANZ See also:FRIEDRICH See also:ERNST (1821-1891) , See also:German astronomer, *as See also:born in See also:Berlin on the 18th of See also:November 1821. Between the ages of eight and eighteen he attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm gymnasium. In 1839 he entered the university of Berlin, where he studied See also:mathematics, See also:astronomy and physics, as well as See also:chemistry, See also:philosophy and See also:philology. After graduating as Ph.D. in 1843, he took an active See also:part in685
astronomical See also:work at the Berlin See also:observatory, under the direction of J. F. See also:Encke, contributing numerous important papers on the orbits of comets and See also:minor See also:planets to the Astronomische Nachrichten. In 1847 he was appointed director of the Bilk observatory, near See also:Dusseldorf, and in the following See also:year published the well-known Memoire sur la comete elliptique de De See also:Vico, for which he received the See also:gold See also:medal of the See also:Amsterdam See also:Academy. In 1851 he succeeded J. G. See also:Galle as first assistant at the Berlin observatory, and accepted in 1854 the See also:post of director of the new observatory at See also:Ann Arbor, See also:Michigan, U.S.A. Here he published, 1858–1862, a See also:journal entitled Astronomical Notices, while his tables of the minor planets See also:Flora, See also:Victoria and See also:Iris were severally issued in 1857, 1859 and 1869. In 186o he went, as See also:associate director of the observatory, to See also:Albany, N. Y.; but returned in 1861 to Michigan, and threw himself with vigour into the work of studying the astronomical and See also:physical constants of the observatory and its See also:instruments. In 1863 he resigned its direction and returned to See also:Germany; then, on the See also:death of See also:Sir W. R. See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton in 1865, he accepted the post of See also:Andrews See also:professor of astronomy in the university of See also:Dublin and astronomer-royal of See also:Ireland. His first undertaking at the Dublin observatory was the erection of an See also:equatorial See also:telescope to carry the See also:fine See also:object-See also:glass presented to the university by Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:South; and on its completion he began an import-See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
ant See also:series of researches on stellar See also:parallax. The first, second and third parts of the Astronomical Observations and Researches made at Dunsink contain the results of these labours, and include discussions of the distances of the stars a Lyrae, v Draconis, Groombridge 183o, 85 Pegasi, and See also:Bradley 3077, and of the planetary nebula H. iv. 37. In 1873 the observatory, on Dr Brunnow's recommendation, was provided with a first-class transit-circle, which he proceeded to test as a preliminary to commencing an extended See also:programme of work with it, but in the following year, in consequence of failing See also:health and eyesight, he resigned the post and retired to See also:Basel. In 188o he removed to See also:Vevey, and in 1889 to See also:Heidelberg, where he died on the zoth of See also:August 1891. The permanence of his reputation was secured by the merits of his Lehrbuch der spharischen Astronomic, which were at once and widely appreciated. In 186o part i. was translated into See also:English by See also:Robert See also:Main, the See also:Radcliffe observer at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford; Brunnow himself published an English version in 1865; it reached in the See also:original a 5th edition in 1881, and was also translated into See also:French, See also:Russian, See also:Italian and See also:Spanish.
See See also:Month. Notices See also:Roy. See also:Asti. Society, lii. 23o; J. C. See also:Poggendorff's Biog. Lit. Handworterbuch, Bd. iii. ; Nature, xliv. 449.
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