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ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 423 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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JOHN
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THOMAS
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THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:
ROMNEY (NEw ROMNEY)
ROMNEY, GEORGE (1734-1802)
ROMNEY, HENRY SIDNEY, EARL OF (1641-1704)
ROMNEY (1792–1882) , Irish astronomer and physicist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

DUBLIN

Dublin on the 23rd of See also:

APRIL

April 1792. He studied at Trinity See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, Dublin, and obtained a fellowship in 1814; for some years he was See also:

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of natural See also:

PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy, until in 1821 he obtained the college living of See also:

Enniskillen. In 1823 he was appointed astronomer of the See also:

ARMAGH

Armagh See also:

OBSERVATORY

observatory, with which he (from 1824) combined the living of See also:

CARRICKMACROSS

Carrickmacross, but he always resided at the observatory, engaged in researches connected with See also:

ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy and physics, until his See also:

DEATH

death on the 28th of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1882. Robinson published a number of papers in scientific See also:

JOURNALS

journals, and the Armagh See also:

CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue of stars (Places of 5345 Stars observed from 1.828 to 1854 at the Armagh Observatory, Dublin, 1859), but he is best known as the inventor (1846) of the See also:

CUP (in O.E. cuppe; generally taken to be from Late Lat. cuppa, a variant of Lat. cupa, a cask, cf. Gr. KuaeXXov)

cup-See also:

ANEMOMETER (from Gr. aveµos, wind, and . rpov, a measure)

anemometer for registering the velocity of the See also:

wind.

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