“in making such observations as may tend to the improvement of geography and navigation and the advancement of science in general”
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Edward Sabine
Sir Edward Sabine was an Irish physicist, geodesist,astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, polar explorer, soldier, and the 30th president of the Royal Society.
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science · Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist and explorer · astronomer · explorer · engineer · physicist · botanist · mathematician · ornithologist · zoologist · major general · also Edward Sabine, Sir Edward Sabine, General Sir Edward Sabine, E. Sabine, Gen. Sabine, Gen. Edward Sabine
Born 14 October 1788 · Died 26 June 1883 · Q311223
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1883· 1 entry
Died 1883-06-26.
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1877· 1 entry
Having been promoted full general on 7 February 1870
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1876· 1 entry
Hangs in the Royal Artillery mess in Woolwich
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1870· 1 entry
Sabine received numerous prestigious awards, including a DCL from Oxford, an LLD from Cambridge, and the KCB (Knight Commander of the Bath), along with several foreign honours
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1867· 1 entry
Was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1861· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the Royal Society (1861–1871).
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1853· 1 entry
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1853).
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1852· 1 entry
Sabine recognised from the Toronto records that magnetic variations could be divided into a regular diurnal cycle and an irregular portion
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1849· 3 entries
Won Royal Medal (1849).
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The Royal Society awarded him one of its gold medals for his work on terrestrial magnetism
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“s Aspects of nature (1850), Meteorological essays by Francois Arago. She was also responsible for the English translation of Ferdinand von Wrangel”
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1845· 1 entry
Treasurer in 1850, and President from 1861 to 1871
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1844· 1 entry
By the German amateur astronomer Heinrich Schwabe
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1839· 1 entry
Sabine played a key role in securing support for an Antarctic expedition led by James Clark Ross aboard HMS Erebus, with Capt
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1834· 1 entry
Commenced a systematic magnetic survey of Ireland, the first of its kind in what was then the United Kingdom
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1830· 1 entry
Sabine was recalled to military duty
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1828· 2 entries
It was arranged that three scientific advisers to the Admiralty should be nominated from the council of the Royal Society
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Was appointed a scientific adviser to the Admiralty, following the abolition of the Board of Longitude
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1826· 1 entry
Awarded Lalande Prize (1826).
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1821· 3 entries
Won Copley Medal (1821).
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Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1821).
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Also embarked on a scientific voyage to the South Atlantic and Caribbean, later conducting studies in Greenland, where Sabine Island was named in his honour
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1819· 1 entry
Sabine returned to the Arctic with William Parry, conducting a magnetic survey on their expedition to Melville Island
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1818· 1 entry
Joined the North-West Passage expedition with John Ross as an astronomer and scientific officer
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1803· 1 entry
At age 15, he obtained a commission in the Royal Artillery as a second lieutenant, becoming a captain ten years later and eventually attaining the rank of general in 1870
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1788· 1 entry
Born 1788-10-14.
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