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Authors names: Various (4) Livingstone, David, 1813-1873 (2) Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 (2) Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 (2)

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  1.  Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy / Airy, George Biddell, 1801-1892
    , ASTRONOMER ROYAL FROM 1836 TO 1881. EDITED BY WILFRID ... business life commenced after he became Astronomer Royal, and from that time forward, during the 46 years  details...
  2.  History of Astronomy / Forbes, George, 1849-1936
    .C. the royal astronomers Hi and Ho failed to predict an eclipse. It probably created great terror ... , and also the Royal Observatory of Greeenwich, where he established Flamsteed as first Astronomer Royal  details...
  3.  On the Method of Zadig / Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
    , the Astronomer-Royal could furnish us with as infallible a prediction applicable to 1980 or 2980. But astronomy ... , on the day and at the hour mentioned by the Astronomer-Royal, the people of Lydia saw the face of the sun  details...
  4.  Essays on the life and work of Newton, by Augustus De Morgan, ed., with notes and appendices, by Philip E. B. Jourdain ... / De Morgan, Augustus, 1806-1871
    , the first Astronomer Royal, and Abraham Sharp, as well as between Newton, Halley, and Flamsteed ... , by the late Mr Baily's discovery of the correspondence. Flamsteed was Astronomer Royal, and his observations  details...
  5.  Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa / Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Maclear, Esq., the accomplished Astronomer Royal at the Cape. I shall never cease to remember ... Correspondent" --Kindness of the London Missionary Society--Assistance afforded by the Astronomer Royal  details...
  6.  Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World / Cowan, James
    OF AN OLD WORLD BY JAMES COWAN CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. AN ASTRONOMER ROYAL. CHAPTER II. A FALLEN ... . POSTSCRIPT. DAYBREAK: A ROMANCE OF AN OLD WORLD CHAPTER I. AN ASTRONOMER ROYAL. It was an evening  details...
  7.  Mr.Gladstone and Genesis / Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
    by the Astronomer-Royal for Ireland, a day or two ago, I find the following remarks on the nebular hypothesis ... of an hypothesis thus guardedly dealt with by an astronomical expert? (9) Lectures on Evolution delivered in New  details...
  8.  The War Of The Worlds / Wells, H. G.
    --Henderson, Ogilvy, and a tall, fair-haired man that I afterwards learned was Stent, the Astronomer Royal ... set the wires of the astronomical exchange palpitating with the amazing intelligence of a huge  details...
  9.  The Lord of the Sea / Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps), 1865-1947
    observatory and Greenwich both uttering their voice, the Astronomer Royal announcing that the so-called planet ... bending in the street over a paragraph, short-- but in _pica_. M. Tissot, the astronomer, had, at half  details...
  10.  Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 / Various
    by their vote. CYRUS W. FIELD has been here, in communication with AIRY, the astronomer Royal ... into the Royal family. The Senate, therefore, incontinently passed the bill. Mr. Morrill introduced a neat  details...

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