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- Edward James Stone (28 de febrero de 1831 - 6 de mayo de 1897) fue un astrónomo inglés. Fue autor de más de 150 publicaciones astronómicas pero su reputación se basa principalmente en su trabajo más temprano en Greenwich y su dos grandes catálogos estelares—el catálogo de El Cabo de 1880 y el catálogo Radcliffe de 1890. (es)
- Edward James Stone (28 February 1831 – 6 May 1897) was an English astronomer. He was born in Notting Hill, London to Edward and Sarah Stone. Educated at the City of London School, he obtained a studentship at King's College London, and in 1856 a scholarship at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated as fifth wrangler in 1859, and was immediately elected fellow of his college. The following year he succeeded the Rev. Robert Main as chief assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and at once undertook the fundamental task of improving astronomical constants. The most important of these, the sun's mean parallax, was at that time subject to considerable uncertainty. He obtained a value for the solar parallax by observations of Mars in 1860 and 1862. He later refined his estimate by examining observations of the transit of Venus of 1769. He also studied the lunar parallax, and determined the mass of the Moon, and obtained a value for the constant of nutation. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1868. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1869, and on the resignation of Sir Thomas Maclear in 1870 he was appointed Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope. His first task on taking up this post was the reduction and publication of a large mass of observations left by his predecessor, from a selected portion of which (those made 1856–1860) he compiled a catalogue of 1,159 stars. His principal work was, however, a catalogue of 12,441 stars to the 7th magnitude between the South Pole and 25°S declination, which was practically finished by the end of 1878 and published in 1881. Shortly after the death of Main on 9 May 1878, Stone was appointed to succeed him as Radcliffe Observer at Oxford, and he left the Cape on 27 May 1879. At Oxford he extended the Cape observations of stars to the 7th magnitude from 25°S declination to the equator, and collected the results in the Radcliffe catalogue for 1890, which contains the places of 6,424 stars. Stone observed the transit of Venus of 1874 at the Cape, and organized the government expeditions for the corresponding event in 1882. He was elected President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1882–1884), and he was the first to recognize the importance of the old observations accumulated at the Radcliffe Observatory by Hornsby, Robertson and Rigaud. He successfully observed the total solar eclipse of 8 August 1896 at Novaya Zemlya, and intended a voyage to India for the eclipse of 1898, but died suddenly at the Radcliffe Observatory. The number of his astronomical publications exceeds 150, but his reputation depends mainly on his earlier work at Greenwich and his two great star catalogues—the Cape catalogue for 1880 and the Radcliffe catalogue for 1890. He had married Grace Tuckett; they had at least four children. (en)
- Edward James Stone (28 février 1831-6 mai 1897) est un astronome anglais. (fr)
- エドワード・ジェームズ・ストーン（Edward James Stone、1831年2月28日 - 1897年5月6日）は、イギリスの天文学者。1880年の、1890年の等星表の編纂で知られる。 (ja)
- Edward James Stone (Notting Hill, 28 febbraio 1831 – Oxford, 6 maggio 1897) è stato un astronomo britannico. (it)
- Edward James Stone, född 28 februari 1833, London, England, död 6 maj 1897 i Oxford, England var en engelsk astronom. Han blev 1870 direktör för observatoriet vid Godahoppsudden och 1879 för observatoriet i Oxford. Hans arbeten redovisar bland annat undersökningar av stjärnornas egenrörelser och av solparallaxen samt framförallt av hans bestämningar av stjärnpositioner. (sv)
- Edward James Stone (Notting Hill, 28 de fevereiro de 1831 — 6 de maio de 1897) foi um astrônomo inglês. Nasceu em Notting Hill, Londres, filho de Roger e Elizabeth Stone. Educado na , obteve uma bolsa de estudos no King's College de Londres. e em 1856 outra bolsa no , onde graduou-se como quinto wrangler em 1859, e em seguida eleito fellow de seu colégio. No ano seguinte sucedeu o reverendo Robert Main como chefe assistente do Observatório Real de Greenwich, e logo empreendeu a tarefa fundamental de aprimorar o cálculo de constantes astronômicas. A mais importante destas, a paralaxe do sol, era na época de considerável incerteza. (pt)
- Эдвард Джеймс Стоун (англ. Edward James Stone, 1831—1897) — английский астроном. (ru)
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- Edward James Stone (28 de febrero de 1831 - 6 de mayo de 1897) fue un astrónomo inglés. Fue autor de más de 150 publicaciones astronómicas pero su reputación se basa principalmente en su trabajo más temprano en Greenwich y su dos grandes catálogos estelares—el catálogo de El Cabo de 1880 y el catálogo Radcliffe de 1890. (es)
- Edward James Stone (28 février 1831-6 mai 1897) est un astronome anglais. (fr)
- エドワード・ジェームズ・ストーン（Edward James Stone、1831年2月28日 - 1897年5月6日）は、イギリスの天文学者。1880年の、1890年の等星表の編纂で知られる。 (ja)
- Edward James Stone (Notting Hill, 28 febbraio 1831 – Oxford, 6 maggio 1897) è stato un astronomo britannico. (it)
- Edward James Stone, född 28 februari 1833, London, England, död 6 maj 1897 i Oxford, England var en engelsk astronom. Han blev 1870 direktör för observatoriet vid Godahoppsudden och 1879 för observatoriet i Oxford. Hans arbeten redovisar bland annat undersökningar av stjärnornas egenrörelser och av solparallaxen samt framförallt av hans bestämningar av stjärnpositioner. (sv)
- Edward James Stone (Notting Hill, 28 de fevereiro de 1831 — 6 de maio de 1897) foi um astrônomo inglês. Nasceu em Notting Hill, Londres, filho de Roger e Elizabeth Stone. Educado na , obteve uma bolsa de estudos no King's College de Londres. e em 1856 outra bolsa no , onde graduou-se como quinto wrangler em 1859, e em seguida eleito fellow de seu colégio. No ano seguinte sucedeu o reverendo Robert Main como chefe assistente do Observatório Real de Greenwich, e logo empreendeu a tarefa fundamental de aprimorar o cálculo de constantes astronômicas. A mais importante destas, a paralaxe do sol, era na época de considerável incerteza. (pt)
- Эдвард Джеймс Стоун (англ. Edward James Stone, 1831—1897) — английский астроном. (ru)
- Edward James Stone (28 February 1831 – 6 May 1897) was an English astronomer. He was born in Notting Hill, London to Edward and Sarah Stone. Educated at the City of London School, he obtained a studentship at King's College London, and in 1856 a scholarship at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated as fifth wrangler in 1859, and was immediately elected fellow of his college. He had married Grace Tuckett; they had at least four children. (en)
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