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Sir Robert Stawell Ball was an Irish astronomer who founded the screw theory.

✵ 1. July 1840 – 25. November 1913
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Famous Robert Stawell Ball Quotes

“Non vi è peggior schiavitù di quella che s'ignora.”

Robert Stawell Ball

A Treatise on the Theory of Screws https://books.google.com/books?id=ECZ-MkhTdvkC 1900 p. 173

“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

The Cause of an Ice Age, London, 1891, p. 3

“The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist.”

Robert Stawell Ball

Star-Land, London, 1895, p. 227

“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

The Story of the Sun, London, 1906, p. 103

“The Planet of Romance”

Robert Stawell Ball

Name for hypothetical planet nearer the Sun than Mercury
The Story of the Heavens, London, 1893, p. 122

“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

A Treatise on the Theory of Screws https://books.google.com/books?id=ECZ-MkhTdvkC 1900 p. 173

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