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Glaisher
Glaisher is a surname, and may refer to: *Cecilia Glaisher (1828–1892), photographer and illustrator *James Glaisher (1809–1903), English meteorologist and astronomer *James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848–1928), English mathematician and astronomer See also *Glaisher (crater), a crater on the moon, named for James Glaisher (1809–1903) *Glacier (other) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilia Glaisher
Cecilia Glaisher (20 April 1828 – 28 December 1892) was an English amateur photographer, artist, illustrator and print-maker, working in the 1850s world of Victorian science and natural history. Early life and marriage Cecilia Louisa Glaisher (''née'' Belville) was born on 20 April 1828, in Greenwich, Kent. Her father, John Henry Belville (1795–1856), was an assistant astronomical observer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and author of ''A Manual of the Barometer'' (London: R. & J.E. Taylor, 1849) and ''A Manual Of The Thermometer'' (London: R. & J.E. Taylor, 1850).Hannavy, John (2007) ''Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography'', pp. 592–594, New York & London: Routledge It is not known whether Cecilia Belville received any formal or scientific education, although an upbringing where the recording of astronomical and meteorological phenomena was part of daily life suggests an awareness of a wider world view than that given to many nineteenth-century British fem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Glaisher
James Glaisher FRS (7 April 1809 – 7 February 1903) was an English meteorologist, aeronaut and astronomer. Biography Born in Rotherhithe, the son of a London watchmaker, Glaisher was a junior assistant at the Cambridge Observatory from 1833 to 1835 before moving to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, where he served as Superintendent of the Department of Meteorology and Magnetism at Greenwich for 34 years. In 1845, Glaisher published his dew point tables for the measurement of humidity. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1849. He was a founding member of the Meteorological Society (1850) and the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain (1866). He was president of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1867 to 1868. Glaisher was elected a member of The Photographic Society, later the Royal Photographic Society, in 1854 and served as the society's president for 1869–1874 and 1875–1892. He remained a member until his death. He was also President of the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher FRS FRSE FRAS (5 November 1848, Lewisham – 7 December 1928, Cambridge), son of James Glaisher and Cecilia Glaisher, was a prolific English mathematician and astronomer. His large collection of (mostly) English ceramics was mostly left to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Life He was born in Lewisham in Kent on 5 November 1848 the son of the eminent astronomer James Glaisher and his wife, Cecilia Louisa Belville. His mother was a noted photographer. He was educated at St Paul's School from 1858. He became somewhat of a school celebrity in 1861 when he made two hot-air balloon ascents with his father to study the stratosphere. He won a Campden Exhibition Scholarship allowing him to study at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was second wrangler in 1871 and was made a Fellow of the college. Influential in his time on teaching at the University of Cambridge, he is now remembered mostly for work in number theory that anticipated later inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glaisher (crater)
Glaisher is a lunar impact crater that is located in the region of terrain that forms the southwest border of Mare Crisium. It lies to the southwest of the lava-flooded crater Yerkes, and west-northwest of the Greaves–Lick crater pair. It is surrounded by a ring of satellite craters of various dimensions, the larger companions generally being arranged to the south of Glaisher. This crater is circular, with a bowl-shaped interior and a small floor at the midpoint. The crater has not been significantly worn by subsequent impacts. A merged, double-crater formation is attached to its southern rim, consisting of Glaisher E at the northwest end and Glaisher G to the southeast. The crater was named after British meteorologist James Glaisher and its name was approved by the IAU in 1935. Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, |
