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22 de may. de 2021 · Abstract. One ‘discovery’ about Neptune proved to be nothing of the sort. William Lassell, one of the foremost British astronomers of the nineteenth century, rose to fame during the months after the telescopic finding by discovering Triton, Neptune’s chief moon—important for calculating the planet’s mass and its influence on Uranus.
23 de dic. de 2023 · Through his correspondence with Adams on the subject, he assigns William Lassell, an expert on telescope technology, to look for moons around Neptune in a letter written on October 1 of the same year of the planet’s discovery. By the 12 th, Lassell writes back, saying he will look for moons as well as rings despite those not being mentioned ...
O pequeno cráter Lassell de Marte, na zona de Coprates, lembra o seu traballo sobre este planeta. Así mesmo, unha crista do satélite Hiperión denominada Bond-Lassell Dorsum tamén conmemora o seu nome, honra compartida co astrónomo estadounidense George Phillips Bond (1825-1865), codescubridor do satélite.
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 (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 .
1 de nov. de 2018 · 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). Download chapter PDF. It is a curious fact that beer has facilitated the emergence of some of the key figures in the history of astronomy. For example, in a previous chapter, we have ...
29 de dic. de 2020 · LASSELL, WILLIAM (1799–1880), astronomer, was born at Bolton in Lancashire on 18 June 1799. At the age of four or five he amused himself by polishing lenses. After his father's death from fever in 1810 he was sent to school at Rochdale for eighteen months, was apprentice from 1814 to 1821 in a merchant's office in Liverpool, and set up in ...
