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And it was also true of William Lassell (born June 18, 1799), the son of a timber merchant hailing from Moor Lane in Bolton, Lancashire, in England (Fig. 10.1). After receiving a rudimentary education at Bolton Day School and, for a short spell, at Rochdale Dissenting Academy, the death of Lassell’s father in William’s
24 de dic. de 2016 · Lassell, William. Born Moor Lane, Bolton, (Greater Manchester), England, 18 June 1799. Died Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, 5 October 1880. William Lassell constructed the first large equatorially mounted reflecting telescopes and proved both the viability and the utility of such large instruments. Using his large reflectors, Lassell discovered ...
WILLIAM LASSELL 1799 – 1888. William Lassell, who lived at Ray Lodge, was a distinguished amateur astronomer who discovered moons of Saturn and Neptune. The son of a timber merchant, Lassell made his fortune as a brewer, but his passion in life was astronomy and he became one of the leading Victorian astronomers.
Lassell was one of the first English astronomers to abandon the unwieldy altazimuth structures of the William Herschel era, constructing a 9‐in. Newtonian reflector and installing it at Starfield in 1833 on an equatorial mounting of his own design.
1 de ene. de 1988 · William Lassell, wine merchant, 8, Hope St, Liverpool. See Gore's (Later Kelly's) Directory of Liverpool for 1821 and... Lassell Mss. 9:1 5v (15 Sept 1828)
Fellow of the Royal Society. Royal Medal (1858) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1849) Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She marçhan as rollageyder Sostynagh va William Lassell (18 Mean Souree 1799 – 5 Jerrey Fouyir 1880).
William Lassell (18 June 1799 – 5 October 1880) was a British astronomer, born in Bolton, Lancashire, England. He died in Maidenhead in 1880. He is known as discoverer of Triton , the largest moon of Neptune , and for his improvements to the reflecting telescope .
