LEADER 03700oam 22006854a 450 001 9910963941703321 005 20240501132331.0 010 $a9781526101938 010 $a1526101939 010 $a9781526101921 010 $a1526101920 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526101921 035 $a(CKB)3710000000529315 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001590116 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16284665 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001590116 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13298311 035 $a(PQKB)10171152 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4706212 035 $a(OCoLC)960166230 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78072 035 $a(DE-B1597)659195 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526101921 035 $a(Perlego)1525762 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000529315 100 $a20161112d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWilliam Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse$eAstronomy and the castle in nineteenth-century Ireland 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOxford :$cManchester University Press,$d2015. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE,$d2020 210 4$dİ2015. 215 $a1 online resource (391 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aRoyal Dublin society--Science and Irish culture series William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781784993726 311 08$a1784993727 311 08$a9780719091445 311 08$a0719091446 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFIVE: Negotiating 'a difficult sectarian terrain': the public life and political opinions of the 3rd Earl of RosseSIX: A consummate engineer; SEVEN: Birr Castle observations of non-stellar objects and the development of nebular theories; EIGHT: William Parsons and the Irish nineteenth-century tradition of independent astronomical research; NINE: 'A presiding influence': the relations of the 3rd Earl of Rosse with scientific institutions in Britain and Ireland; TEN: The 3rd Earl of Rosse: an assessment; Select bibliography; Index. 327 $aWILLIAM PARSONS, 3RD EARL OF ROSSE: Astronomy and the castle in nineteenth-century Ireland; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Foreword; Preface: why this book?; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Succession of the Parsons family at Birr; ONE: History of the Parsons family1 and Birr Castle; TWO: Origin of the 3rd Earl's interest in astronomy; THREE: Mary, Countess of Rosse (1813-85); FOUR: William Parsons' influence on the town and community of Birr. 330 $aThis 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 enormous telescopes in the cloudy middle of Ireland. The book gives details, in an attractive non-technical style which requires no previous scientific knowledge, of his engineering initiatives and the astronomical results, but also reveals much more about the man and his contributions - locally in the. 606 $aAstronomers$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00819629 606 $aAstronomers 615 7$aAstronomers. 615 0$aAstronomers. 676 $a520.92 700 $aMollan$b R. Charles$01242901 701 $aMollan$b R. C$g(R. Charles)$01242901 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963941703321 996 $aWilliam Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse$94368793 997 $aUNINA