Arthur Beverly

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Arthur Beverly (born March 22, 1822 in Alford , Aberdeenshire , Scotland , † October 25, 1907 in Dunedin , New Zealand ) was a New Zealand-born clockmaker , mathematician and astronomer .

Life

Arthur Beverly was born on March 22, 1822, the son of the farmer George Beverly in Alford County Aberdeenshire born in Scotland. His mother is unknown. Initially raised at home, Beverly occasionally attended community school and evening classes with James Taylor, a local shoemaker, where he learned Euclidean geometry , trigonometry , astronomy , surveying, and navigation . At the age of 14 he went to Aberdeen to do an apprenticeship with watchmaker and optician Baillie Berry . After his apprenticeship, he continued to work in Aberdeen as a journeyman in his profession.

Australia

In 1852 he moved to Australia, where Beverly first arrived in Melbourne , made a short detour to the gold fields in Victoria , but then finally worked as a watchmaker in Melbourne . Beverly came to the city on the east coast of the South Island in January 1858 through a friendship with William Strachan , a grocer who emigrated to Dunedin , New Zealand in 1857 .

New Zealand

With the plan to start a watch shop in Dunedin , he brought watches and jewelry as well as material for the daguerreotype , a photographic process in which he was interested at the time. In 1861 Beverly already owned a house on Princes Street , served as a member of the Dunedin Town Board from 1859 to 1861, was a member of the Otago Provincial Expedition to the West Coast of the South Island in 1862 and sold his business in the wake of the financial crisis in 1864.

From then on, Beverly devoted herself to science and worked, among other things, as a consultant for mining engineers in the province of Otago . On the New Zealand Exhibition , the 1865 in Dunedin took place and for which Beverly was a member of the jury and as an exhibitor, he put his sideboard -Uhr before whose mechanics worked on the use of air pressure and temperature differences and later as Beverly Clock awareness acquired.

On November 27, 1865, Beverly was honored with the Makdougall-Brisbane Prize of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts for the development of his planimeter . Beverly was also interested in astronomy and developed a telescope that is still owned by the Beverly-Begg Observatory in Dunedin .

Beverly was not married and died on October 25, 1907 in Dunedin . He left the University of Otago with a legacy of £ 57,000 at the time  that the university was allowed to use for scholarships and awards.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Knight, Amon : Beverly, Arthur . In: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . 1990.
personal data
SURNAME Beverly, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand watchmaker, mathematician and astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Alford , Aberdeenshire , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1907
Place of death Dunedin , New Zealand