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British astronomer (1841–1930)

Edward Knobel at the 1887 [IAU](/source/International_Astronomical_Union) meeting[*[contradictory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_self-contradictory_articles)*]

**Edward Ball Knobel** (21 October 1841 – 25 July 1930) was an English businessman and amateur [astronomer](/source/Astronomer). He was born in [London](/source/London), England.

He started to study law but his love of [geology](/source/Geology) made him change to the [Government School of Mines](/source/Government_School_of_Mines) (now part of [Imperial College London](/source/Imperial_College_London)) in 1861. In 1862, he changed his career again, starting to work for [Bass & Co.](/source/Bass_(beer)) at [Burton upon Trent](/source/Burton_upon_Trent) as an [analytical chemist](/source/Chemist) in the brewery department. He rose to become a manager and [Head Brewer](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Head_Brewer&action=edit&redlink=1). He then became a manager of a [Courtauld's](/source/Samuel_Courtauld_(industrialist)) [silk](/source/Silk) factory at [Bocking](/source/Braintree%2C_Essex) in 1875. His final position was with the [Ilford Photographic Company](/source/Ilford_Photo).

In 1872, he purchased an 8.5 inch [reflecting telescope](/source/Reflecting_telescope) to further his interest in astronomy. His work on a publication about the chronology of [star catalogues](/source/Star_catalogues) in 1875 let him to study the work of early [Arab](/source/Arab) astronomers and learn some [Arabic](/source/Arabic_language) and [Persian](/source/Persian_language). He then prepared a new edition of the star catalogue in the [Almagest](/source/Almagest) using all available sources in Greek, Arabic and Latin. After a long collaboration with [C. H. F. Peters](/source/C._H._F._Peters), a final collated version was published in 1915.[1] In 1917 he published a translation of [Ulugh Beg](/source/Ulugh_Beg)'s star catalogue.[2] He was President of both the [British Astronomical Association](/source/British_Astronomical_Association) and the [Royal Astronomical Society](/source/Royal_Astronomical_Society) (1892–1893 and 1900–1901).

The Knobel Crater is located next to the [Gale (crater)](/source/Gale_(crater))

A [crater](/source/Impact_crater) on [Mars](/source/Mars) was named in his honour.

## Family

One of Knobel's daughters, [Emily Maud Knobel](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=E._Maud_Knobel&action=edit&redlink=1), was a Fellow of the Zoological Society and an expert on parrots, particularly their care in captivity.[3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Peters, Christian Heinrich Friedrich & Knobel, Edward Ball, *Ptolemy's Catalogue of Stars: A Revision of the Almagest* (Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1915 [= *Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington*, no. 86]) [online link](https://archive.org/details/cu31924012300491).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Knobel, Edward Ball, *Ulugh Beg's Catalogue of Stars: Revised from all Persian Manuscripts Existing in Great Britain, with a Vocabulary of Persian and Arabic Words* (Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1917 [= *Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington*, no. 250]) [online link](https://archive.org/details/cu31924012303800).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Maurice Amsler (1948). ["MAUD KNOBEL 1922-1948"](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56311571). *The Avicultural Magazine*. **54** (5): 137–138. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0005-2256](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0005-2256). [Wikidata](/source/WDQ_(identifier)) [Q113677135](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113677135).

- ["Edward Ball Knobel"](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fmnras%2F91.4.318). *Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society*. **91** (4): 318–321. 1931. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[1931MNRAS..91..318.](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1931MNRAS..91..318.). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1093/mnras/91.4.318](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fmnras%2F91.4.318).

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