Person
Scott, William (1825 - 1917)
- Born
- 8 October 1825
Hartland, Devon, England - Died
- 29 March 1917
Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Astronomer and Member of clergy
Summary
William Scott was Colonial Astronomer, New South Wales 1856-1862 and instituted the collection of meteorological records of New South Wales.
Related entries
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- William Scott - Records, 1856 - 1917; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
St Paul's College Archives, University of Sydney
- William Scott - Records, 1865 - 1878; St Paul's College Archives, University of Sydney. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Cable, K. J., 'Scott, William (1825-1917)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 6: 1851 - 1890 R - Z, Bede Nairn, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), pp. 97-98. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060112b.htm. Details
- Lomb, Nick, 'Early advances in observing eclipses' in Eclipse chasers, Lomb, Nick; and Stevenson, Toner, eds (Clayton South, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, 2023), pp. 25-53. Details
Journal Articles
- Lomb, Nick, 'Australian eclipses: three "men of science" and the Sydney eclipse of 1857', Journal of astronomical history and heritage, 24 (3) (2021), 619-28. Details
- Orchiston, Wayne, 'Mission Impossible: William Scott and the First Sydney Observatory Directorship', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 1 (1) (1998), 21-43. Details
- Tyler, Peter J., 'Seeing Stars in the City: a History of Early Astronomy in Sydney', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 142 (3/4) (2009), 1-14. Details
- Wood, H., 'Sydney Observatory 1858-1983', Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 5 (2) (1983), 273-281. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1323358000017094. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8018207. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/120510007. Details
- 'Scott, William (1825-1917)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462212. Details
See also
- Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/index_s.html. Details
- Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_s.html. Details
- Lomb, Nick, 'Australian solar eclipse expeditions: the voyage to Cape York in 1871', Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 19 (1) (2016), 79-95. Details
- Lomb, Nick; and Stevenson, Toner eds, Eclipse chasers (Clayton South, Vic: CSIRO Publishing, 2023), 216 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 August 2006
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