The Net Advance of Physics:
History and Philosophy: The Hall Family

She wed; and they together loved and learned;
And like Orion, hunting down the stars,
He found and gave to her the moons of Mars.

Angelo Hall on his parents

• ASAPH HALL, SR.:
  • "Mrs. Hall was Full of Enthusiasm" (or, The Perks of Having an Encouraging Spouse) by Troy McConaghy [2012/11]
  • Sketch of Asaph Hall by [Popular Science 45, 833 (1894)]
  • Biographical Memoir of Asaph Hall by Geo. Wm. Hill [Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1908]
  • Obituary by W. S. Eichelberger [Astronomische Nachrichten 177, 127/128 (1908)]
  • No Wonnumetonomy: The Struggles of a Self-Made Scientist by Norman Hugh Redington [Net Advance Retro, 2013/01]

  • WORKS:
    • Reports on Observations of the Total Solar Eclipse of December 22, 1870 by Simon Newcombe, Asaph Hall, and Wm. Harkness [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1871]
    • Hindrances to Students of Mathematics by Asaph Hall [Nature 6, 351 (1872)]
    • Reports on Observations of Encke's Comet During its Return in 1871 by Asaph Hall and Wm. Harkness [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1872]
    • The Discovery of the Satellites of Mars by Asaph Hall [M. N. R. A. S. 38, 205 (1878)]
    • Observations on Double Stars by Asaph Hall [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881]

• ANGELINE STICKNEY HALL:
  • An Astronomer's Wife: The Biography of Angeline Hall by her son Angelo Hall [Baltimore: Nunn, 1908]

  • WORKS:
    • Donati's Comet: A Poem by Angeline Stickney Hall [1858]
    • To Science: A Poem by Angeline Stickney Hall [undated]

• ASAPH HALL, JR.:
  • Asaph Hall, Jr. [University of Michigan]

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