Great Astronomers William Rowan Hamilton - Robert Stawell Ball

Great Astronomers William Rowan Hamilton

By Robert Stawell Ball

  • Release Date: 2023-05-22
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

Description

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