Robert Stawell Ball Quotes

July 1, 1840 – November 25, 1913

Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1 July 1840 – 25 November 1913) was an Irish astronomer and author of several popular books.

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.

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

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

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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

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The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist.

Robert Stawell Ball
— Star-Land, London, 1895, p.227

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