The Little Book of Irish Science SFI Little Book of Irish Science | Page 49

X 3
+ 2x
2
= x 2 (
44 1843
Dublin native, Sir William Rowan Hamilton’s
‘quaternions’, herald the birth of modern algebra and
are also used in space fl ight navigation equations.
45 1848
Also born in Dublin, Margaret Lindsay Huggins
along with her husband William Huggins were the
fi rst to apply the dry gelatine photographic plate
to astronomical spectroscopy, an important tool in
modern observation astronomy.