Papers, etc.
Papers are in the Royal Greenwich Observatory archives at Cambridge University. There is an index available online. Dyson’s correspondence with G.E. Hale is in the Hale microfilms.
Other References: Historical
BBC News, “Six Pip Salute,” 5 February 1999
Guardian Unlimited, Special Reports: “With the Astronomer Royal” 30 June 1927
Brück, Herman A., The Story of Astronomy in Edinburgh (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, 1983).
Chandrasekhar, S., “Verifying the Theory of Relativity,” Bull. Atomic Sci. (1976); reprinted in Notes and Records of the Royal Society 30, 249–60 (1976).
Dyson, F.W., “The Work of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,” Observatory, 55, 221-24 (1932).
Earman, John & Clark Glymour, “Relativity and Eclipses: The British Eclipse Expeditions of 1919 and Their Predecessors,” Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 11, 49-85 (1980).
Johnson, Peter Jeffrey, The History of the Royal Observatory and Royal Greenwich Observatory (Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux, 1987).
Maunder, E. Walter, The Royal Observatory, Greenwich: A Glance at its History and Work (The Religious tract Society, London, 1900).
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/bookman/library/ROG/INDEX.HTM
McCrea, William Hunter, Royal Greenwich Observatory: An Historical Review issued on the occasion of its Tercentenary (HMSO, London, 1975).
McCrea, W.H., “The Royal Observatory and the Study of Gravitation,” Notes and Records of the Royal Society 30, 133–40 (1976).
Meadows, A.J., Greenwich Observatory: The Royal Observatory at Greenwich and Herstmonceux, vol. 2: Recent History 1836-1975 (Taylor & Francis, London, 1975).
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, “Sobral 1919”
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.1028
Spencer Jones, Harold, The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (Longmans Green & Co., London, etc., 1944).
Search ADS for works about Dyson
Other References:Scientific
Dyson, F.W. & W.G. Thackeray, “The Effect of Personality in Observations of the Sun’s Right Ascension on the Determination of the Position of the Ecliptic,” MNRAS 54, 415-28 (1894).
Dyson, F.W., “On the Correction of Photographic Measures for Refraction,” Astronomical Journal 15, 150 (1895).
Dyson, F.W., “Photographic Refractions (Reply to Prof. Jacoby’s Note),” Astronomical Journal 16, 101-02 (1896).
Dyson, F.W. & W.G. Thackeray, “A Determination of the Constant of Precession and the Direction of the Solar Motion from a Comparison of Groombridge’s Catalogue (1810) with Modern Greenwich Observations,” MNRAS 65, 428-57 (1905).
Dyson, F.W. & E.W. Maunder, “The Position of the Sun’s Axis as Determined on Photographs of the Sun from 1874-1911,” MNRAS 72, 564 (1912) and MNRAS 73, 673-87 (1913).
Dyson, F.W., “Wireless Time Signals,” Observatory 36, 467-71 (1913).
Dyson, F.W., “The Proper Motions of the Stars in Carrington’s Circumpolar Catalogue in Relation to their Spectral Types,” MNRAS 74, 733-44 (1914).
Dyson, F.W. & W.G. Thackeray, “The Mean Parallax of Stars of Different Magnitudes,” MNRAS 77, 7-16 (1916).
Dyson, Frank Watson, “On the Opportunity Afforded by the Eclipse of 1919 May 29 of Verifying Einstein’s Theory of Gravitation,” MNRAS 77, 445-47 (1917).
Dyson, Frank Watson, Arthur Stanley Eddington, & Charles Davidson, “A Determination of the Deflection of Light by the Sun’s Gravitational Field, from Observations Made at the Total Eclipse of May 29, 1919,” Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society 220, 291-333 (1920).
Dyson, F.W., “Analysis of the Proper Motions of the Reference Stars in the Greenwich Astrographic Catalogue,” MNRAS 80, 633-35 (1920).
Dyson, Frank, “Star-streaming in the Region Round the North Pole,” MNRAS 82, 19 (1921).
Dyson, F.W., “Greenwich Mean Time,” Observatory, 44, 158-59 (1921).
Dyson, Frank & W. Bowyer, “Reception of W/T [Wireless Telegraphy] Signals at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich,” MNRAS 82, 193-99 (1922).
Dyson, Frank, & A. C. D. Crommelin, “The Greenwich Observations of the Moon, 1751-1922,” MNRAS 83, 359 (1923).
Dyson, F.W., “A Method for Correcting Series of Parallax Observations,” MNRAS 86, 686-706 (1926).
Dyson, F.W. & R.T. Cullen, “Greenwich Observations of the Sun and the Four Outer Planets, from 1901-1928,” MNRAS 89, 256 (1929).
Dyson, F.W. & R.v.d.R. Wooley, Eclipses of the Sun and Moon (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1937).
Other Works: Popularizations, Fiction, History, etc.
Dyson, F.W., “The Commencement of the Astronomical Day,” Observatory 40, 301-02 (1917).
Dyson, Frank Watson, Astronomy, a Handy Manual for Students and Others (J.M. Dent & Sons, London, 1910 and E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1918).
Dyson, Frank, “The Determination of Stellar Distances,” JRASC 12, 195-201 (1918) [reprinted from Scientia].
Dyson, F.W., “Sixty years of Meridian Astronomy,” Observatory 60, 95-99 (1937).
Dyson, Frank, “Sir William Herschel, 1738-1822,” JRASC 32, 441-46 (1938) [reprinted from Nature].
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