Agnes Mary Clerke: 3 books

Great Astronomers: John Pond by Agnes Mary Clerke Astronomer and writer, mainly in the field of astronomy. She wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclop?dia Britannica and for the Dictionary of National Biography. Her sister Ellen Mary Clerke was also a writer on astronomy for the general public.  

TO THE FIRST EDITION The progress of astronomy during the last hundred years has been rapid and extraordinary. In its distinctive features, moreover, the nature of that progress has been such as to lend itself with facility to untechnical treatment. To this circumstance the present volume owes its...

John Pond (1767–1836) was appointed as 6th Astronomer Royal in February 1811, succeeding Dr. Nevil Maskelyne. Of a mild and unassuming character, Pond neither sought nor attained a popular reputation. His work was wholly technical, his writings dry and condensed; but his reform of the national observatory...