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- O reverendo Robert Main foi um astrônomo inglês. 40px Este artigo ou secção está a ser traduzido de en:Robert Main. Ajude e colabore com a tradução.
- The Reverend Robert Main (July 12, 1808, Upnor – May 9, 1878) was an English astronomer. Born in Kent, the eldest son of Thomas Main, Robert Main attended school in Portsea before studying mathematics at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated as sixth wrangler in 1834. He served for twenty-five years (1835-60) as First Assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and published numerous articles, particularly on stellar and planetary motion, stellar parallax, and the dimensions and shapes of the planets. From 1841 to 1861 he was successively an honorary secretary, a vice-president, and President of the Royal Astronomical Society, and in 1858 was awarded the Society's Gold Medal. In 1860 he became director of Radcliffe Observatory at Oxford University after the death of Manuel Johnson, and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He supervised the third (1859) edition of Sir John Herschel's A Manual of Scientific Enquiry, prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy and adapted for travellers in general (1849), which included an article on geology by Charles Darwin. His textbook Practical and Spherical Astronomy was published in 1863. He was responsible for editing the Second Radcliffe Catalogue (1870), which detailed 6,317 stars, and Herschel's Catalogue of 10,300 multiple and double stars (1874). He also published observations made of rainfall in Oxford over 25 years from 1851 to 1875, and contributed to the Fortnightly Review during the editorship of G. H. Lewes. He was an ordained priest of the Church of England who preached regularly while living in Greenwich, and his works include the annual address for 1875 to the Philosophical Society at the Victoria Institute (entitled Modern Philosophic Scepticism Examined) and a sermon on I Corinthians 1:22-24 given to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in the same year. He completed the questionnaire on which Francis Galton based his English Men of Science (1874), and his recorded answers included the following comments: “I take considerable pains in the investigation of religious matters, one of my amusements being the collection of a considerable theological library, with the books of which I am familiar. ” “I am not aware of any innate taste for science... My interest in astronomy, especially, was very small indeed until I was appointed. ” The lunar crater Main is named after him, and there is also a crater on Mars named after him.
- Robert Main est un astronome britannique. Main naît à Upnor dans le Kent. Il étudie au Queens' College de l'université de Cambridge, il finit ses études en 1834 et se marie avec une sœur de Phillip Kelland en 1838. De 1835 à 1860 il est premier assistant de l'Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy. À Greenwich Main s'occupe de l'édition des articles et des données. Durant cette période il publie de nombreux articles sur l'orbite des planètes, la parallaxe des étoiles, les dimensions et formes des planètes. De 1841 à 1849 il est secrétaire de la Royal Astronomical Society, vice-président jusqu'en 1859 puis son président pendant deux ans. En 1860 Main prend la direction de l'observatoire Radcliffe. La même année il devient membre de la Royal Society. En 1859 Main supervise la troisième édition de A Manual of Scientific Enquiry, prepared for the use of Her Majesty's Navy and adapted for travellers in general. En 1863 il publie Practical and Spherical Astronomy, manuel d'astronomie destiné aux étudiants et en 1870 le second catalogue de Radcliffe contenant 6 317 étoiles. Avec Charles Pritchard il publie le General Catalogue of 10,300 Multiple and Double Stars de John Herschel en 1874. En dehors de ses travaux en astronomie Main publie de 1851 à 1875 dans le Fortnightly Review revue alors dirigé par George Henry Lewes. Il est aussi prêtre de l'Église anglicane, il prêche régulièrement durant son séjour à Greenwich, ses sermons sont publiés en un volume. Main répond au questionnaire de Francis Galton en préparation de English Men of Science publié en 1874, entre autres il y dit « Je ne suis pas conscient d'aucun goût inné pour la science [... ...]. Mon intérêt pour l'astronomie était en effet mineur avant que je sois engagé comme astronome. ». Deux cratères d'impact portent son nom, un sur la Lune, Main et un sur Mars, Main.
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- The Reverend Robert Main (July 12, 1808, Upnor – May 9, 1878) was an English astronomer. Born in Kent, the eldest son of Thomas Main, Robert Main attended school in Portsea before studying mathematics at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated as sixth wrangler in 1834.
- Robert Main est un astronome britannique. Main naît à Upnor dans le Kent. Il étudie au Queens' College de l'université de Cambridge, il finit ses études en 1834 et se marie avec une sœur de Phillip Kelland en 1838. De 1835 à 1860 il est premier assistant de l'Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy. À Greenwich Main s'occupe de l'édition des articles et des données.
- O reverendo Robert Main foi um astrônomo inglês. 40px Este artigo ou secção está a ser traduzido de en:Robert Main. Ajude e colabore com a tradução.
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