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See also:- STEWART, ALEXANDER TURNEY (1803-1876)
- STEWART, BALFOUR (1828-1887)
- STEWART, CHARLES (1778–1869)
- STEWART, DUGALD (1753-1828)
- STEWART, J
- STEWART, JOHN (1749—1822)
- STEWART, JULIUS L
- STEWART, SIR DONALD MARTIN (1824–19o0)
- STEWART, SIR HERBERT (1843—1885)
- STEWART, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1540—c. 1605)
- STEWART, STUART
- STEWART, WILLIAM (c. 1480-c. 1550)
STEWART, See also:BALFOUR (1828-1887) , Scottish physicist, was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh on the 1st of See also:November 1828, and was educated at the university of that See also:city. The son of a See also:tea See also:merchant, he was for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time engaged in business in See also:Leith and in See also:Australia, but, returning to his studies of physics at Edinburgh, he became assistant to J. D. See also:Forbes in 1856. Forbes was especially interested in questions of See also:heat, See also:meteorology, and terrestrial See also:magnetism, and it was to these that Stewart also mainly devoted himself. Radiant heat first claimed his See also:attention, and by 1858 he had completed his first investigations into the subject. These yielded a remarkable See also:extension of See also:Pierre See also:Prevost's " See also:Law of Exchanges," and enabled him to establish the fact that See also:radiation is not a See also:surface phenomenon, but takes See also:place throughout the interior of the radiating See also:body, and that the radiative and absorptive See also:powers of a substance must be equal, not only for the radiation as a whole, but also for every constituent of it. In recognition of this See also:work he received in 1868 the See also:Rumford See also:medal of the Royal Society, into which he had been elected six years before, Of other papers in which he dealt with this and kindred branches of physics may be mentioned " Observations with a Rigid Spectroscope," " See also:Heating of a Disc by Rapid See also:Motion in Vacuo," " Thermal See also:Equilibrium in an Enclosure Containing See also:Matter in Visible Motion," and " See also:Internal Radiation in Uniaxal Crystals." In 18J9 he was appointed director of See also:Kew See also:Observatory, and there naturally became interested in problems of meteorology and terrestrial magnetism. In 187o, the See also:year in which he was very seriously injured in a railway See also:accident, he was elected See also:professor of physics at See also:Owens
' On the 6th of November 1878 his body was stolen from St See also:Mark's See also:churchyard in New See also:York, but recovered in 1881 upon the See also:payment of $2o,000, and buried in the See also:crypt of the See also:cathedral in See also:Garden City.
2 Upon her See also:death she See also:left a small See also:part of her See also:estate to her other relatives and her servants, about $4,631,000 to See also:Charles J. Clinch, a kinsman, and about $9,262,000 to See also:Judge See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Hilton (1824-1899), a business See also:associate of Stewart, who had received a See also:legacy of $1,000,000 from Stewart, and who managed Mrs Stewart's business affairs after her See also:husband's death. Clinch and Hilton were executors, and it was understood that Hilton should See also:complete the cathedral at Garden City and endow See also:schools there. A See also:nephew of Mrs Stewart in 1887 sued to break the will on the ground that Hilton had unduly influenced her; the See also:case was compromised out of See also:court in 1890 and Mrs Stewart's relatives received more of her estate than they would have .got under the terms of the testament.
See also:College, See also:Manchester, and retained that See also:chair until his death, which happened near See also:Drogheda, in See also:Ireland, on the 19th of See also:December 1887. He was the author of several successful textbooks of See also:science, and also of the See also:article on " Terrestrial Magnetism " in the ninth edition of this See also:Encyclopaedia. In See also:conjunction with Professor P. G. See also:Tait he wrote The Unseen Universe, at first published anonymously, which was intended to combat the See also:common notion of the incompatibility of science and See also:religion.
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