Life
1840-1913 [Robert Stawell Ball; R. S. Ball]; ed. in Chester and at TCD; Maths. Prof. Royal College of Science, Dublin; chair at Royal College of Science, Dublin, and Lowndean Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge, 1892; Irish Astronomer Royal, 1874-92; and author of a very successful work, The Story of the Heavens (1886), which receives mention in James Joyce’s Ulysses; FRS 1873; knighted 1886. ODNB DIB IBL
Works
The Story of the Sun (1893); The Story of the Heavens (1886).
Criticism
W. V. Ball, Reminiscences and Letters of Sir Robert Ball (1915); See also Irish Book Lover, Vol. 5.
References
Morris Collection of Ulster Univ. Library holds Robert Stawell Ball, The Story of the Sun (1893).
Notes
The Story of the Heavens (1886) was included in Leopold Bloom’s library [see Ulysses, Bodley Head Edn., 1960, p.832].
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