Astronomy in nineteenth-century Lancaster

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Apr 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997jbaa..107...75w&link_type=abstract

Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.107, no.1, p.75-78

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Lancashire's county town produced several eminent scientists in the last century, one of them, the philosopher of science William Whewell, even coining the word 'scientist' itself. Some of the others also proved good at devising names: the palaeontologist Sir Richard Owen invented the word 'dinosaur' and the chemist Sir Edward Frankland named helium following its detection in the solar spectrum by Norman Lockyer. While Lancaster's nineteenth-century scientific pantheon contained no well-known astronomers, a healthy appetite for the subject had grown along with the town itself,1 culminating in the opening of the Greg Observatory in 1892.2 This growth can be traced through the activities of Lancaster's learned societies, popular expositions of the subject by visiting speakers and reports of astronomical topics in the local press.

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