In 1837 Peacock was appointed Lowndean Professor of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge, the chair afterwards occupied by Adams, the co-discoverer of Neptune, and later occupied by Sir Robert Ball, celebrated for his Theory of Screws.

The Plumian chair of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy is one of the two major Professorships in Astronomy at Cambridge University, alongside the Lowndean Professorship.

Category: Lowndean Professors of Astronomy and Geometry

Category: Lowndean Professors of Astronomy and Geometry

Category: Lowndean Professors of Astronomy and Geometry

" This award, while certainly of major importance, never was reported in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, probably due to Carrington's bitter, acrimonious and public criticism of Cambridge University over the appointment of John Adams as the non-observing Director of the Cambridge Observatory ( added to Adams's pre-existing academic duties as the Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry.

From 1750 until 1770 he was the first holder of the Lowndean Professorship of Astronomy.

Category: Lowndean Professors of Astronomy and Geometry

In 1892 he was appointed Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at Cambridge University at the same time becoming director of the Cambridge Observatory.

Category: Lowndean Professors of Astronomy and Geometry

He held the Fielden Chair at the University of Manchester ( 1964 – 1970 ), and became Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at the University of Cambridge ( 1970 – 1989 ).

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He was Lowndean Professor at the University of Cambridge for thirty-three years from 1859 to his death.

In 1858 Adams became professor of mathematics at the University of St Andrews, but lectured only for a session, before returning to Cambridge for the Lowndean professorship of astronomy and geometry.

Thomas Lowndes ( 1692 – May 12, 1748 ) was the founder of the Lowndean professorship of astronomy at Cambridge University, England.

The chair is currently held at the Institute of Astronomy in the University.

The Plumian chair was founded in 1704 by Thomas Plume, a member of Christ's and Archdeacon of Rochester, to " erect an Observatory and to maintain a studious and learned Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, and to buy him and his successors utensils and instruments quadrants telescopes etc.

He then moved to the University of Maryland, where he became chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1953.

A chair of Mathematics and Astronomy existed at the University of Durham between 1841 – 1871 ; Chevallier was the one to hold this post.

During his tenure of this chair he published two volumes of A Course of Mathematics-the first, entitled Elements of Geometry, Geometrical Analysis and Plane Trigonometry, in 1809, and the second, Geometry of Curve Lines, in 1813 ; the third volume, on Descriptive Geometry and the Theory of Solids was never completed.

In 1891 he moved back to Rome to work at the chair of Analytic and Projective Geometry.

It should be installed over a door that is in full view of everyone, and a chair should be placed under it, a little to one side.

The truth is, however, that when Mel Chandler first reported to the regiment the only steed he had ever ridden was a swivel chair and the only weapon he had ever wielded was a pencil.

He doesn't think that potting them from a deck chair on the south side of the house with a quart glass of beer for sustenance is entirely sporting.

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

A wheelchair is a chair with wheels, designed to be a replacement for walking.

She is a serene woman who, after taking care of the housework, sits quietly in a chair.

* A smaller figure, next to the man, sitting on a chair ; as it is near the pole star, it may be seen by observers in the Northern Hemisphere through the whole year, although sometimes upside down ( the constellation Cassiopeia )

Licenses for TV and radio broadcasters are issued by the Republican Commission on Television and Radio Broadcasting, the chair of which is the minister of information.

It is headed by a four-star general, and the chair rotates among the services.

In Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Anglican cathedrals there is a special chair set aside for the exclusive use of the bishop.

In some Christian denominations, for example, the Anglican Communion, parish churches may maintain a chair for the use of the bishop when he visits ; this is to signify the parish's union with the bishop.

The chair of this council is held by the member from the state holding the presidency ( see section above ).

Similarly, the Economic and Financial Affairs Council is composed of national finance ministers, and they are still one per state and the chair is held by the member coming from the presiding country.

In 1986, Prince Philip commented on Chinese eating habits at the World Wildlife Fund conference: " If it has four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

The Council is made up of the chair of CND, the treasurer, three vice-chairs, 15 directly elected members, a representative of each of the specialist sections, one from Student CND, three from Youth CND and 27 from the regional groups.

One is the chair of the university's student senate, and the other is non-voting and is the chair of the university's faculty senate.

* 1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

The Arkansas Education Standards Committee, chaired by Clinton's wife, attorney and Legal Services Corporation chair Hillary Rodham Clinton, succeeded in reforming the education system, transforming it from the worst in the nation into one of the best.

As Governor, he oversaw four executions: one by electric chair and three by lethal injection.

Each year, the Council elects one of their number as Mayor to serve as the town's civic leader and to chair council meetings

The foundation has its members appointed by the Swedish government ( 4 to 8 seats ), the departments appoints one member, the student union appoints one member and the president automatically gains one chair.

He has one functioning hand and one cybernetic eye mounted on his forehead to take the place of his real eyes, which appear to have been welded shut ; for much of his existence he depends completely upon a self-designed mobile life-support chair which encloses the lower half of his body.

In this story there appear to be two Davroses: one is a head in a tank and apparently a decoy for assassins ; the other is in his usual chair ( which can now hover ), emerging from hiding when the decoy is assassinated.

Other variants include chair fencing, one-hit épée ( one of the five events which constitute modern pentathlon ) and the various types of non-Olympic competitive fencing.

For one of his biographers, Hepworth Dixon, Bacon's influence in modern world is so great that every man who rides in a train, sends a telegram, follows a steam plough, sits in an easy chair, crosses the channel or the Atlantic, eats a good dinner, enjoys a beautiful garden, or undergoes a painless surgical operation, owes him something.

But in 48 BC, guards holding bladed fasces guided Vatia Isauricus to the tribunal of Marcus Caelius, and Vatia Isauricus used one to destroy Caelius's magisterial chair ( sella curulis ).

* Archie's Barber Shop: Scenes with Archie Campbell, regular customer Roy Clark, and two or three other regulars sitting in the " waiting chairs " ( on lesser occasions Junior Samples would be the one going into the barber's chair ).

* Carl Ritter ( 1779 – 1859 ), considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern geography and first chair in geography at the Humboldt University of Berlin, also noted for his use of organic analogy in his works.

In the original theatrical shorts, they were originally sent to visit Donald for only one day ; in the comics, the three were sent to stay with Donald on a temporary basis, until their father came back from the hospital ( the boys ended up sending him there after a practical joke of putting firecrackers under his chair ).

In October he was too ill to take the President's chair and in November Fanny Burney recorded that " I had long languished to see that kindly zealous friend, but his ill health had intimidated me from making the attempt ": " He had a bandage over one eye, and the other shaded with a green half-bonnet.

The player who is left without a chair is eliminated from the game, and one chair is also removed to ensure that there will always be one fewer chair than there are players.