Stone, Edward James

Stone, Edward James

Stone, Edward James, Astronom, geb. 28. Febr. 1833 in London, gest. 9. Mai 1897 in Oxford, studierte in Cambridge Astronomie, wurde 1860 Assistent an der Sternwarte in Greenwich, 1870 Royal Astronomer am Kap der Guten Hoffnung, 1879 Direktor der Radcliffe-Sternwarte in Oxford. Er veröffentlichte: »Cape Catalogue of 1159 stars« (Kapstadt 1873); »General Cape Catalogue of 12,441 stars« (das. 1880); »Determination of the constant of nutation« (Lond. 1870); »Tables for facilitating the computation of starconstants« (hrsg. von Turner, 1897).


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