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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Victorian popular astronomer: Sir Robert Stawell Ball

Sir Robert Stawell Ball
1840-1913

Sir Robert Ball

SIR ROBERT STAWELL BALL



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A Popular Guide to the Heavens

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Astronomy

Elements of Astronomy

Experimental Mechanics: A course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Science for Ireland

Great Astronomers

In Starry Realms

In the High Heavens

Reminiscences and Letters of Sir Robert Ball

Starland: Being Talks with Young People about the Wonders of the Heavens

The Cause of an Ice Age

The Earth's Beginning

The Elements of Astronomy

The Story of the Heavens

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Theory of Screws: A Study in the Dynamics of a Rigid Body

Time and Tide: A Romance of the Moon


Mars...Percival Lowell's romance with the red planet

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Poet colleague

Annus mirabilis-1905

March is a time of transition
winter and spring commence their struggle
between moments of ice and mud
a robin appears heralding the inevitable
life stumbling from its slumber
it was in such a period of change in 1905
that the House of Physics
would see its Newtonian axioms
of an ordered universe collapse
into a new frontier
where the divisions of time and space
matter and energy
were to blend as rain and wind
in a storm that broke loose
within the mind of Albert Einstein
where Brownian motion danced
seen and unseen, a random walk
that became his papers marching through science
reshaping the very fabric of the universe
we have come to know
we all share a common ancestor
a star long lost in the eons of memory
and yet in that commonality
nature demands a permutation
a perchance genetic roll of the dice
which births a new vision
lifting us temporarily from the mystery
exposing some of the roots to our existence
only to raise a plethora of more questions
as did the papers of Einstein in 1905

TIMRAY
SAN DIEGO 9/05

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