Great Astronomers William Rowan Hamilton
By Robert Stawell Ball
- Release Date: 2023-05-22
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Description
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) was an Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who made important contributions to mechanics, optics, and algebra. As a teenager, he mastered parts of Newton's Principia and studied Laplace's celestial mechanics treatise
