William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse : Astronomy and the castle in nineteenth-century Ireland.

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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 enor...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mollan, R. Charles
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Rosse, William Parsons, > Earl of, > 1800-1867.
Rosse, William Parsons, > Earl of, > 1800-1867
Astronomers.
Astronomes.
astronomers.
HISTORY / Social History.
Astronomers
Anglo-Irish community.
Birr Castle.
Countess of Rosse.
Irish climate.
Spiral Galaxy.
William Parsons.
architectural initiative.
astronomy.
engineering.
resident landlord.
scientific research.
spiral nebulae.
telescopes.
the Leviathan.
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