Works
edit- Experimental Mechanics: A Course of Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Science for Ireland (1871) (external scan)
- Theory of screws: a study in the dynamics of a rigid body (1876) (external scan)
- Astronomy (1877) (external scan)
- Elements of Astronomy (1880) (external scan)
- The Story of the Heavens (1886) (external scan)
- Star-land Being Talks With Young People About The Wonders Of the Heavens (1889) (external scan)
- The cause of an ice age (1891) (external scan)
- Time and tide, a romance of the moon: being two lectures delivered in the theatre of the London Institution on the afternoon of November 19 and 26, 1888 (1892) (external scan)
- Great astronomers (1895) (external scan)
- The earth's beginning (1901) (external scan)
- The scale of the invisible heavens (1903)
- A popular guide to the heavens (1905)
- The Story of the Sun (1906) (external scan)
- A treatise on spherical astronomy (1908) (external scan)
- In the High Heavens (1910)
- In Starry Realms (1912) (external scan)
- "Gravitation," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (11) (1880)
- "Measurement," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (15) (1883)
- "Nebular Theory," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Articles in Popular Science Monthly
editWorks about Ball
edit- "Ball, Sir Robert Stawell," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Ball, Robert Stawell," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement, London: Oxford University Press (1927)
- "Ball, Robert Stawell," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)
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