Eric G. Forbes
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American historian of astronomy
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Eric Gray Forbes FRSE FRAS was Professor of the History of Science at the University of Edinburgh. Life He was born in St. Andrews in Fife on 30 March 1933. He went to Madras College in St Andrews University and graduated BSc. He then continued as a postgraduate at St Andrews and the University of London gaining a PhD in Astronomy.
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- The library of the Rev. John Flamsteed, F. R. S., first astronomer royal (1973) (30)
- Gauss and the Discovery of Ceres (1971) (17)
- The origin and development of the marine chronometer (1966) (13)
- The Euler-Mayer correspondence (1751_-_1755). (1971) (13)
- The Foundation and Early Development of the Nautical Almanac (1965) (12)
- The Gresham lectures of John Flamsteed (1975) (11)
- The Royal Society catalogue of portraits (1980) (9)
- Tobias Mayer's Opera Inedita: The First Translation of the Lichtenberg Edition of 1775 (1972) (9)
- Tobias Mayer's Contributions to the Development of Lunar Theory (1970) (7)
- Greenwich Observatory ... the story of Britain's oldest scientific institution, the Royal Observatory at Greenwich and Herstmonceux, 1675-1975. (1975) (7)
- The Pre-Discovery Observations of Uranus (1982) (6)
- The astronomical work of Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) (1978) (6)
- The Euler-Mayer Correspondence (1973) (6)
- The professionalization of dentistry in the United Kingdom. (1985) (6)
- Some Observational Features of the Solar Limb Effect (1962) (6)
- Tobias Mayer's Contributions to Observational Astronomy (1980) (5)
- Descartes and the birth of analytic geometry (1977) (5)
- William Herschel's Astronomical Telescopes (1971) (4)
- The Foundation of the First Göttingen Observatory: A Study in Politics and Personalities (1974) (4)
- The Birth of Scientific Navigation: The Solving in the Eighteenth Century of the Problem of Finding Longitude at Sea (1975) (4)
- Tobias Mayer 1723-1762. Pioneer of enlightened science in Germany (1980) (4)
- The origins of the Greenwich observatory (1975) (4)
- The Bicentenary of the Nautical Almanac (1767) (1967) (4)
- Tobias Mayer's lunar tables (1966) (4)
- Human implications of scientific advance : proceedings of the XVth International Congress of the History of Science, Edinburgh, 10-15 August 1977 (1978) (4)
- Tobias Mayer's Claim for the Longitude Prize: A Study in 18th Century Anglo-German Relations (1975) (3)
- Book Review: The History of Geodesy: Erdgestalt, Kosmologie und Weltanschauung: Die Geschichte der Geodäsie als Teil der Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit (1983) (3)
- The Greenwich Observatory: origins and early development, 1675–1835 (1975) (3)
- The Euler-Mayer correspondence, 1751-1755;: A new perspective on eighteenth-century advances in the lunar theory, (1971) (3)
- Index of the Board of Longitude Papers at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Part I (1970) (3)
- Tobias Mayer (1723–62): A Case of Forgotten Genius (1970) (3)
- Tobias Mayer's new astrolabe (1759): Its principles and construction (1971) (3)
- Nuremberg's astronomical heritage. (1971) (2)
- The comet of 1680 - 1681. (1990) (2)
- The International Organization of the History of Science: A Personal View (1982) (2)
- Mesopotamian and Greek influences on ancient Indian astronomy and on the work of Aryabhata. (1977) (2)
- Tobias Mayer's theory of colour-mixing and its application to artistic reproductions (1970) (2)
- The Einstein effect and the observed solar red shifts (1970) (2)
- Schultz's Proposal for Finding Longitude at Sea (1971) (2)
- Bradley's Astronomical Observations (1965) (2)
- Greenwich Observatory : one of three volumes by different authors telling the story of Britainsʼ oldest scientific institution, the Royal Observatory Greenwich and Herstmonceux, 1675-1975 (1975) (1)
- The Maskelyne Manuscripts at the Royal Greenwich Observatory (1974) (1)
- John Flamsteed and The Origins of the Greenwich Astronomical Tradition (1975) (1)
- The geodetic link between the Greenwich and Paris Observatories in 1787 (1985) (1)
- "Job descriptions" & "work objectives" in clinical engineering: part 2. (1977) (1)
- The problem of the solar red shifts (1961) (1)
- Some Features of History of Science Teaching and Research in the USA, USSR, FR Germany and UK (1981) (1)
- The unpublished writings of Tobias Mayer. Part 1 (1972) (1)
- The Astronomical Museum at the Old Tartu Observatory (1968) (1)
- ILDEPHONSE KENNEDY, OSB (1722-1804) AND THE BAVARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (1981) (1)
- Tobias mayer's method for calculating the circumstances of a solar eclipse (1972) (1)
- N. R. Pogson and the definition of the astrophotometric scale. (1977) (1)
- Early Astronomical Researches of John Flamsteed (1976) (1)
- The Crawford Collection of Books and Manuscripts on the History of Astronomy, Mathematics, etc., at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (1973) (1)
- History of Science in the Federal Republic of Germany (1974) (1)
- Shigeru Nakayama. A History of Japanese Astronomy: Chinese Background and Western Impact. (Harvard-Yenching Institute, Monograph Series, Volume 18. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1969. Pp. xiii, 329. $10.00. (1973) (0)
- A. E. Gunther, An Introduction to the Life of the Rev. Thomas Birch D.D., F.R.S 1705–1766. Halesworth: The Halesworth Press, Suffolk, England 1984. Pp. x + 118. ISBN 0-9507276-1-X. £7.90. (1985) (0)
- Eighteenth Century (1969) (0)
- Bibliography Supplement to the Catalogue of the Crawford Library of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. Pp. xii + 112. Edited by Mary F. I. Smyth and Michael J. Smyth. Edinburgh: Royal Observatory, 1977. £5.00. (1980) (0)
- Book Review: Humboldt-Schumacher Correspondence: Briefwechsel zwischen Alexander von Humboldt und Heinrich Christian Schumacher. Zum 200. Geburtstag von H. C. Schumacher (1981) (0)
- D. J. Struik (Editor), A Source Book in Mathematics , 1200–1800 (Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1969), pp. xiv + 427, 115s. (1970) (0)
- Tobias Mayer's method of measuring the areas of irregular polygons (1970) (0)
- Greenwich Observatory: Vol. 1, Origins and Early History; Vol. 2, Recent History; Vol. 3, The Buildings and Instruments. (1976) (0)
- Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1974) (0)
- Book Review:John Harrison: The Man Who Found Longitude Humphrey Quill (1968) (0)
- Book Review: History of Astronomy in East Germany: “Forschungen und Publikationen zur Geschichte der Astronomie in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (1970) (0)
- FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH: INFORMATION SOUGHT (1981) (0)
- Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1972) (0)
- The historical supernovae: By David H. Clark and F. Richard Stephenson. Pp. x + 233. Pergamon Press, Oxford. 1977. $15.00 (1977) (0)
- Builders of the Universe (1974) (0)
- BJH volume 5 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (1970) (0)
- History and Philosophy of Science (1967) (0)
- Das Eimmartische Observatorium zu Nürnberg (1691 - 1757). (1970) (0)
- Private Manuscript Collections in Scotland (1974) (0)
- Edmond Halley. By Angus Armitage. Pp. xii + 220. 27 figures and 16 plates. London: Thomas Nelson, 1966. 42s. (1966) (0)
- Book Review:Briefwechsel zwischen Alexander von Humboldt und Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet Kurt-R. Bierman (1984) (0)
- Science from the beginning (1974) (0)
- Newton's science and the Newtonian philosophy (1978) (0)
- OBITUARY (1952) (0)
- Astronomy and Physics (1969) (0)
- Book Review: An Illustrated General History: Wandel des Weltbildes: Astronomie, Physik und Mesztechnik in der Kulturgeschichte (1982) (0)
- Book Review: Erdgestalt, Kosmologie und Weltanschauung, by Volker Bialas (1983) (0)
- Book-Review - Greenwich Observatory - Origins and Early History (1979) (0)
- The International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS): Organizational Structure and Publications (1981) (0)
- The dawn of astronomical navigation. (1974) (0)
- "Job descriptions" & "work objectives" in clinical engineering: part 1. (1977) (0)
- Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1968) (0)
- Chronically Implanted Cardiovascular Instrumentation (1977) (0)
- Book Review: Astronomical Journals in Germany: Veröffentlichungen der Archenhold-Sternwarte Nr. 5 (1973) (0)
- Physical Sciences (1971) (0)
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