Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton

Great Astronomers: William Rowan Hamilton

Robert Stawell Ball

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ISBN9789635266685

Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865) was an Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who made important contributions to mechanics, optics, and algebra. As a teenager, he mastered parts of Newton's Principia and studied Laplace's celestial mechanics treatise. When barely 22, Hamilton became