Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913), Irish astronomer, mathematician and author. After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Ball held a profe
Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913), Irish astronomer, mathematician and author. After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Ball held a professorship at Cambridge University and later became Astronomer Royal of Ireland. In addition to his astronomical observations, he had a passion for mathematics. Much of his spare time was dedicated to investigating the mechanics of rigid bodies, culminating in his treatise on the theory of screws. His accessible lecturing and writing style gave him a wide popular appeal, and he authored a successful series of books of popular astronomy. He was knighted in 1886. This image, showing Ball in the Meridian Room at Cambridge University, is taken from his book Star- Land, published 1899.
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