Great Astronomers

Sir Robert Stawell Ball, Fellow of The Royal Society, (1 July 1840, Dublin – 25 November 1913, Cambridge) was an Irish astronomer. And was appointed Royal Astronomer of Ireland and Andrews Professor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin at Dunsink Observatory. In 1892 he was appointed Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at Cambridge University at the same time becoming director of the Cambridge Observatory. Great Astronomers, is a serie of short biographies of the greatest Astronomers of all time, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Edmond Halley , Tycho Brahe, William Herschel, William Rowan Hamilton, James Bradley, William Parsons