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According to Wikipedia, Sir Robert Stawell Ball was an Irish astronomer who founded the screw theory. He was Royal Astronomer of Ireland at Dunsink Observatory. Life He was the son of naturalist Robert Ball and Amelia Gresley Hellicar. He was born in Dublin. and was educated at Trinity College Dublin where he won a scholarship in 1859 and was a senior moderator in both mathematics and experimental and natural science in 1861.

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A treatise on the theory of screws, by Sir Robert Stawell Ball. (89)
The theory of screws: A study in the dynamics of a rigid body (1876) (43)
The Story of the Heavens (27)
The theory of screws a study in the dynamics of a rigid body / by Robert Stawell Ball. (13)
Dunsink Observatory (1882) (3)
The Discussion on Quaternions (1893) (2)
II. On vortex-rings in air: To the editors of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal (1868) (2)
VII. Researches in the dynamics of a rigid body by the aid of the theory of screws (2)
On an optical phenomenon: To the editors of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal (1868) (1)
Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century (1)
On the Annual Parallax of the Star P III 242 (1880) (1)
Researches in the Dynamics of a Rigid Body by the Aid of the Theory of Screws. [Abstract] (0)
Further Researches on the Annual Parallax of 61 Cygni (1881) (0)
Chapter XXI: Developments of the dynamical theory (0)
George Banaster, The Mythe Villa, Tewkesbury (1898) (0)
Appendix II: A dynamical parable (0)
Chapter XX: Emanants and pitch invariants (0)
XXXVII. On the principal screws of inertia of a free or constrained rigid body (1878) (0)
On a Geometrico-Statical Theorem (1901) (0)
Observations of Minor Planets with the Transit-Circle at Dublin (Dunsink) (1876) (0)
Note on the Single Equation which comprises the Theory of the Fundamental Instruments of the Observatory (1908) (0)
Chapter XIV: Freedom of the third order (0)
On the Annual Parallax of P. III. 242 (0)
Popular Astronomy (1886) (0)
Chapter III: Reciprocal screws (0)
Observations in search of stars with annual parallax (0)
On the Annual Parallax of Groombridge 1618 (0)
John Franklin-Adams, Wimbledon (1897) (0)
Chapter XV: The plane representation of freedom of the third order (0)
Chapter XII: Plane representation of dynamical problems concerning a body with two degrees of freedom (0)
II. Researches in the dynamics of a rigid body by the aid of the theory of screws (0)
Discussion of the observations of the planetary nebula H IV, 37, for determining its parallax (0)
The Cultivation of Lucerne (0)
On the Annual Parallax of 6 Cygni (B) (0)
The Unseen Universe. (1895) (0)
Henry Ellis, Little Heath, Potter's Bar (1898) (0)
Occultation of Regulus by the Moon observed at Dunsink Observatory (1887) (0)
Appendix I: Notes on various points (0)
Micrometric Observations of Nova Andromedœ, made at the Observatory, Dunsink (1886) (0)
Chapter XXIV: The theory of screw-chains (0)

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