{"text_format":"2","workbook":"xls","n_sheets":1,"sheets":["report2"],"not_rendered":{"charts":0,"images":0,"macros":0,"external_links":1,"defined_names":1,"comments":0,"pivot_tables":0},"unopened":[],"bounds":{"document_bytes":16777216,"sheet_cells":100000,"run_cost":"one","rows_first":2000,"rows_last":500,"rows_between":2000,"halvings":0,"cell_chars":16384,"cell_head_chars":4096},"cells_cut":0,"cells_raw":0,"read":"whole","date_system":"1900","formulas":"cached_only"}

{"sheet":"report2","index":0,"n_rows":24,"n_cols":5,"rows_kept":24,"cut":false,"hidden":false,"merged":[[0,2,0,3],[0,4,0,5],[1,2,1,3],[1,4,1,5],[2,2,2,3],[2,4,2,5],[3,2,3,3],[6,2,6,3],[10,2,10,3],[11,2,11,3],[12,2,12,3],[13,2,13,3],[14,2,14,3],[15,2,15,3],[16,2,16,3],[20,2,20,3]],"flags":["formulas_cached_only"]}
[null,"1.","Record Nr.",null,"UNINA9910963941703321"]
[null,null,"Autore",null,"Mollan R. Charles"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse : Astronomy and the castle in nineteenth-century Ireland"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Oxford : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2015"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9781526101938"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1526101939"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9781526101921"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1526101920"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (391 pages) : illustrations"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Royal Dublin society--Science and Irish culture series  William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"520.92"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Astronomers"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph"]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"FIVE: Negotiating 'a difficult sectarian terrain': the public life and political opinions of the 3rd Earl of RosseSIX: A consummate engineer; SEVEN: Birr Castle observations of non-stellar objects and the development of nebular theories; EIGHT: William Parsons and the Irish nineteenth-century tradition of independent astronomical research; NINE: 'A presiding influence': the relations of the 3rd Earl of Rosse with scientific institutions in Britain and Ireland; TEN: The 3rd Earl of Rosse: an assessment; Select bibliography; Index."]
[{"$nulls":4},"WILLIAM 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."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","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 "]
[{"$nulls":4},"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."]