Baily, Francis

Baily, Francis

▪ British astronomer

born April 28, 1774, Newbury, Berkshire, Eng.
died Aug. 30, 1844, London
 astronomer who detected the phenomenon called “Baily's beads” during an annular eclipse of the Sun on May 15, 1836. His vivid description aroused new interest in the study of eclipses.

      Baily retired from a successful business career in 1825 and turned his energies to science. He had already, in 1820, taken a leading part in the foundation of the Royal Astronomical Society, which awarded him its Gold Medal in 1827 for his preparation of the society's catalog of 2,881 stars. His protests regarding the British Nautical Almanac, then notorious for its errors, were instrumental in bringing about its reform. Baily revised several star catalogs, repeated Henry Cavendish's experiments to determine the density of the Earth, and measured its elliptical shape.

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