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William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse: Astronomy and the Castle in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Mollan R Charles (Ed
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Hardcover. 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 Editor(s): Mollan, R.Charles. Num Pages: 368 pages, 88 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; BGH; BGT; PDX; PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 241 x 35. Weight in Grams: 750.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719091445
SKU
V9780719091445
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About Mollan R Charles (Ed
Charles Mollan is a retired science administrator, editor and publisher, and a historian of Irish science -- .
Reviews for William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse: Astronomy and the Castle in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
'exceptional book, which is an invaluable, eclectic collection of ten scholarly articles... The book covers every aspect of William Parson's life, and those of many of his close collaborators, not least of who was his wife Mary.', Jonathan Maxwell, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, Book Review, 2014|The 7th Earl and his wife have worked tirelessly to preserve the heritage ... Read more