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Ball, Sir Robert Stawell, (1840-1913), Knight, astronomer and mathematician

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Surname: Ball
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Robert Stawell
Gender: Male
Date: 1840-1913
Title: Knight
Biography: ODNB link for Ball, Sir Robert Stawell (1840-1913) Knight Astronomer and Mathematician
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P135857 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P1367 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Robert Stawell Ball
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1885-1900: corresp
Oxford University: History of Science Museum
NRA 9532 Oxford scientific
2
1893-1901: letters
Trinity College Dublin
See Accessions to Repositories 1986
3
1868-1919: misc family corresp and papers, lecture notes, journal
Cambridgeshire Archives
See Annual Report 1983
4
1872-1900: letters to Royal Astronomical Society
Royal Astronomical Society Library
RAS letters
See Memoirs of Royal Astronomical Society vol 85 1978
5
1875-98: letters to Sir George Stokes
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Add 7342, 7656
NRA 20700 Stokes
6
1900-1909: lecture notes and calculation notebook
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Obsy F.1-7
NRA 43261
7
1840-1913: notebooks
Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre
SC/BallRS