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Robert Stawell Ball
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“The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side.”
Robert Stawell Ball (1840–1913) first seen 1891 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Cause of an Ice Age, London, 1891, p. 3
“The Planet of Romance”
Robert Stawell Ball (1840–1913) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Story of the Heavens, London, 1893, p. 122
“The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist.”
Robert Stawell Ball (1840–1913) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Star-Land, London, 1895, p. 227
“All screws of a given pitch belonging to a system of the third order are the generators of a certain hyperboloid. There is... a different hyperboloid for each pitch. ...all these hyperboloids are concentric.”
Robert Stawell Ball (1840–1913) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Treatise on the Theory of Screws 1900 p. 173
“The intrinsic brightness of the Sun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter.”
Robert Stawell Ball (1840–1913) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Story of the Sun, London, 1906, p. 103