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Robert Stawell Ball

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Profession
Astronomer
Died
Nov 25, 1913
Zodiac
Cancer
Born in
Ireland
About
Irish astronomer remembered for founding the mathematical concept known as "screw theory." He was named the Royal Astronomer of Ireland at the University of Dublin in 1874 and is responsible for important works on astronomy like A Treatise on Spherical Astronomy.
Family
He married Lady Francis Elizabeth Ball, with whom he had six children. His father was famed naturalist Robert Ball.

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